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You are the sole Codex worker for Backgammon Simplified research lane explainer-native-cubeful-k001.
Read /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md and every referenced frozen protocol before acting. Execute exactly the current frozen experiment autonomously through durable artifacts, tests, result, and Git commits. Adapt only between completed experiments, never within a running protocol. Existing accepted data only. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, production promotion, Analyzer changes, Canonical changes, or Corpus changes. Preserve TRAIN, DEVELOPMENT/ADAPTIVE SELECTION, PROTECTED FINAL EVALUATION and record every protected access. Accepted architecture remains ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1. Any better model is only CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION. On HFCS, Corpus and Post Match have priority and substantial headroom must remain. Work only in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl, /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm, /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/runtime and /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/artifacts. Commit results locally but do not push; the supervisor pushes after verifying clean state. At completion update the lane handoff to completed/waiting-for-Research-Director and do not invent the next experiment yourself.
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## research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001...origin/research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001
## milestone/explainer-native-cubeful-k001...origin/milestone/explainer-native-cubeful-k001
# Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff

Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`

Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`

Normative protocol:
`milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`

Implementation:
`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`

Starting head:
`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`

Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.

Accepted integration package identity:
`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.

Initial host: `HFCS`.
One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.

Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.

No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
# Research Brain Task: Explainer Diagnostic v2

**Status:** complete; local only, not pushed

**Branch:** `research-brain`

**Accepted baseline:** `da2c04e476adb5b227d938dc149616aeb4c6cafc`

**Implementation commit:** `e2a3c8732e9fbc879c60ab81f3334b6b7c27b31d`

## Scope

This bounded diagnostic uses only the accepted match-context feasibility-v1
release. It audits metric definitions and pair orientation; separates GNU best
versus played, second, all alternatives, exact top, and complete ordering;
adds documented baselines; runs whole-mirrored-pair learning curves and
feature-family ablations; reevaluates frozen abstention; and produces 15
traceable figures in SVG and PNG.

No GNU, Sage, money-game generation, corpus expansion, package installation,
deployment, or modification of the accepted v1 release is in scope.

## Result

- Product proxy: 297 non-self contrasts, including 95 exact equity ties; 202
  nonzero sign observations.
- Nine-pair held-out product sign: 0.420 Ridge, 0.475 additive, 0.540 gradient,
  all below the 0.594 majority baseline.
- Nine-pair exact top: 0.505 Ridge, 0.489 additive, 0.646 gradient, versus a
  0.336 candidate-count-weighted random baseline.
- Current tactical-family product increment: -0.041 Ridge, -0.072 additive,
  +0.032 gradient.
- Frozen accepted-policy coverage: 174/2,136 overall (8.15%) and 12/297 for the
  non-self product task (4.04%). Agreement among supported decisions is 100%
  by policy construction.
- Recommendation: **BUILD TACTICAL FEATURES V2**.

## Outputs

- Implementation: `src/backgammon_explainer/diagnostic_v2.py` and
  `src/backgammon_explainer/diagnostic_figures.py`
- Builder: `scripts/build_match_context_diagnostic_v2.py`
- Tests: `tests/test_diagnostic_v2.py` and
  `tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py`
- Derived release:
  `artifacts/derived/sage_gnu_match_context_diagnostic_v2/`
- Decision report: `docs/match-context-diagnostic-v2.md`
- Handoff: `docs/handoffs/research/2026-07-22-match-context-diagnostic-v2.md`

The pre-existing untracked `build/` and `results/` trees remain outside this
task and must stay untouched.
# Research Brain Task

## Full-corpus match-context feasibility

**Status:** complete; poor feasibility result

**Branch:** `research-brain`

**Accepted baseline:** `556793600a579895e61b1209a6500e06bacc249e`

**Implementation commit:** `d45b9a7efe04629594574d6651b8aee634666854`

### Scope completed

- Parsed all 82 accepted per-game GNU reviews without changing the accepted
  parser.
- Accounted for 3,612 checker headers: 3,258 candidate-bearing decisions and
  354 forced cannot-move blocks.
- Parsed all 13,929 displayed candidates with zero source failures.
- Decoded and round-tripped every GNU Position ID and Match ID.
- Legally reconstructed all 13,929 candidate boards with zero quarantines.
- Preserved the provisional candidate-set vocabulary and added explicit
  displayed-count evidence without treating it as legal enumeration.
- Built a 50-feature, target-free registry and one canonical group per
  comparable actual-4-ply decision.
- Derived 8,707 unordered comparisons from 2,136 grouped decisions.
- Used leave-one-complete-mirrored-pair-out validation across all 10 pairs.
- Ran fixed Ridge, interpretable additive, and gradient-boosting experiments.
- Simulated a strict explanation-abstention policy.

### Result

The feasibility classification is **poor**.

The interpretable additive model achieved:

- pairwise sign accuracy: 0.5917;
- pairwise MAE: 0.0228;
- top-move agreement: 0.4813;
- top-two ordering accuracy: 0.5646;
- mean within-decision rank correlation: 0.2352.

The fixed abstention policy supported 174 of 2,136 eligible decisions
(8.15%) and abstained on 91.85%. Agreement among supported decisions is 100%
by policy construction.

Parsing, reconstruction, identifier separation, perspective, and candidate
depth preservation passed. The evidence instead points to missing tactical
features, insufficient additive capacity, and match-context heterogeneity.

### Decision

- [x] Do not call this a money model.
- [x] Do not authorize production money generation.
- [x] Pause large-scale data generation.
- [x] Revise the bounded concepts and narrow the supported explanation scope
  before considering a genuine money-game pilot.

### Outputs

- Contract: `docs/contracts/match-context-feasibility-v1.md`
- Builder: `scripts/build_match_context_feasibility.py`
- Identifier/reconstruction/features/models: `src/backgammon_explainer/`
- Tests: `tests/test_*`
- Derived release: `artifacts/derived/sage_gnu_match_context_feasibility_v1/`
- Handoff: `docs/handoffs/research/2026-07-22-match-context-feasibility.md`

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## Existing-data GNU candidate-parser proof

**Status:** complete

**Branch:** `research-brain`

**Implementation commit:** `2279884f8784bd12de10de8a08dcccea5400702b`

## Scope completed

- Parsed the two accepted Pair 01 / Match A per-game GNU review fixtures.
- Represented all 103 checker-decision blocks.
- Represented all 461 displayed candidates.
- Preserved each candidate's actual 0-ply, 2-ply, or 4-ply depth.
- Kept benchmark `experiment_match_id` separate from GNU `Match ID`.
- Added source filenames and one-based line numbers to every parsed row.
- Added strict quarantine behavior and focused malformed-input tests.
- Produced development-only decision, candidate, validation, and failure files.
- Documented a proposed candidate-set vocabulary without freezing it.

## Acceptance result

- [x] Existing Sage-error extractor unchanged.
- [x] Accepted Stage 1 sources and derived artifacts unchanged.
- [x] Every checker decision in the two-file fixture accounted for.
- [x] Every displayed candidate represented; no real-source quarantines.
- [x] Actual candidate ply preserved.
- [x] Mixed-depth decisions explicitly identified.
- [x] Parsed rows trace to accepted logical source file and line.
- [x] Validation and quarantine outputs are visible.
- [x] Nine focused unit tests pass.
- [x] Only 2 of 82 review files processed.
- [x] No GNU invocation, generation, analysis rerun, or production work.
- [x] No off-list move evaluation or model training.

## Pilot findings

| Measure | Count |
|---|---:|
| Checker decisions | 103 |
| Displayed candidates | 461 |
| Actual 4-ply candidates | 227 |
| Actual 2-ply candidates | 177 |
| Actual 0-ply candidates | 57 |
| Complete full-depth decisions | 1 |
| Mixed-depth decisions | 66 |
| Uniform incomplete-depth decisions | 18 |
| Fewer-than-five displayed decisions | 18 |
| Parse failures | 0 |

The selected nominal 4-ply review is therefore not a five-candidate 4-ply
dataset. Actual per-candidate depth must remain authoritative.

## Outputs

- Parser: `src/backgammon_explainer/gnu_review_parser.py`
- Builder: `scripts/build_candidate_parser_pilot.py`
- Contract: `docs/contracts/gnu-review-candidate-pilot-schema.md`
- Fixtures: `tests/fixtures/gnu_review/pair_01_match_A/`
- Tests: `tests/test_gnu_review_parser.py`
- Pilot: `artifacts/development/candidate_parser_pilot/`

## Next review decision

Review the proposed status vocabulary, especially the name
`fewer_than_requested_legal_moves`. The pilot observes fewer displayed ranks
but does not independently reconstruct the legal-move count. Do not start a
larger parse or any GNU money-game work as part of this completed task.

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# Frozen Protocol: Improve Additive Native Cubeful Modeling v1

Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_CODEX`
Lane: `explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`

## Starting authority

Implementation branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
Starting implementation: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
Accepted product architecture remains fixed: `ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
Accepted integration package identity: `f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
`CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains absolute.

## Hypothesis

The successful nonlinear additive architecture can materially improve prediction of EXISTING GNU native Cubeful equity when given accepted factual position representation plus accepted score/match/cube context, without inventing calculated cubeful logic.

## Data and partition freeze

Use existing accepted native Cubeful targets only. Before fitting or inspecting new outcome metrics, discover and record the exact target/data identities and reuse an already frozen TRAIN/DEVELOPMENT/PROTECTED grouping if one exists. If none exists, deterministically create a complete-source-group split from existing accepted data, commit the membership identity, and use that same split for the entire 24-hour program.

No Sage/GNU campaign data may be consumed as training.

## Frozen model comparison

1. reproduce the strongest existing accepted native-Cubeful baseline available in durable Explainer evidence;
2. additive model using accepted position representation only;
3. additive model using accepted position representation plus the full accepted factual match/cube context block.

Model structure, regularization grid, context fields, preprocessing and seeds must be committed before DEVELOPMENT scoring. No broad search.

## Primary metrics

Development RMSE, MAE, bias, correlation/R2 where meaningful, calibration by target magnitude, and exact contribution reconstruction for additive candidates. Segment descriptively by cube ownership, cube value, score, match length, Crawford state and position class using predeclared factual bins.

## Decision rule

`MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT` requires a clear development improvement over the reproduced baseline in both RMSE and MAE, no material global-bias regression, and stable direction across grouped folds. A winner is frozen before any PROTECTED access.

A protected winner may only be classified `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`. Production remains unchanged.

If the additive candidate wins, the next separately frozen experiment is context-family ablation and robustness by match state with exact contribution reconstruction.

If it remains weak, the next experiment diagnoses cube ownership/value/score/match-length/Crawford/position-class error structure before proposing new context representation.

If progress requires missing calculated-cubeful authority, stop that line, record the exact missing interface and redirect the lane. Do not invent it.

## Host boundary

Initial host HFCS. Before every substantial run perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight. Heavy work runs niced. Preserve substantial headroom. Never signal, stop, renice, restart or reconfigure Post Match, Corpus Listener/writer lease, or historical GNU workloads. Yield only this lane's own process tree.

## Absolute boundaries

No new GNU, Sage, source matches, labels, generic 0-ply generation or Sage/GNU campaign training consumption. No production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Adapt between experiments only.

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./scripts/produce_hadd_sidecar.py
./scripts/produce_strict_clean_deep_4ply.py
./scripts/reconcile_retained_actual_4ply.py
./scripts/run_alternate_model_comparison.py
./scripts/run_canonical_analysis_v1_freeze.sh
./scripts/run_capacity_test.py
./scripts/run_constrained_additive_position_model.py
./scripts/run_data_efficiency.py
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_capacity.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_expanded.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_strict_clean.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v2.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v3_acquisition.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v3_one_decision.sh
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_modeling.py
./scripts/run_deep_label_data_inventory.py
./scripts/run_evaluation_harness_v2.py
./scripts/run_feature_v2_100_experiment.py
./scripts/run_feature_v2_250_experiment.py
./scripts/run_feature_v2_500_diagnostics.py
./scripts/run_feature_v2_500_experiment.py
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_16h_checkpoint.py
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_16h_checkpoint.sh
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_learning_curve.py
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_learning_curve.sh
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_modeling_overnight.py
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_modeling_smoke.py
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_overnight.sh
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py
./scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py
./scripts/run_targeted_feature_interaction.py
./scripts/summarize_deep_4ply_checkpoint.py
./scripts/validate_deep_4ply_one_decision.py
./scripts/validate_gnu0ply_one_hour.py
./scripts/verify_deep_4ply_acquisition.py
./scripts/verify_hadd_analyzer_contract.py
./scripts/verify_hfcs_capacity.py
./scripts/verify_position_value_evidence.py
./scripts/watch_hfcs_acquisition_ram.sh
./tests/test_alternate_model_comparison.py
./tests/test_alternate_model_comparison_plan.py
./tests/test_canonical_analysis_v1.py
./tests/test_canonical_storage_profile_v1.py
./tests/test_capacity_test.py
./tests/test_constrained_additive_position_model.py
./tests/test_data_efficiency.py
./tests/test_deep_4ply_acquisition.py
./tests/test_deep_4ply_modeling.py
./tests/test_deep_label_data_scaling.py
./tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py
./tests/test_diagnostic_v2.py
./tests/test_evaluation_harness_v2.py
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./tests/test_feature_registry.py
./tests/test_feature_v2.py
./tests/test_feature_v2_100.py
./tests/test_feature_v2_250.py
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./tests/test_feature_v2_500_diagnostics.py
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./tests/test_gnu0ply_modeling.py
./tests/test_gnu_ids_and_reconstruction.py
./tests/test_gnu_review_parser.py
./tests/test_grouped_models.py
./tests/test_hadd_compact_runtime.py
./tests/test_hadd_integration.py
./tests/test_hfcs_capacity.py
./tests/test_metrics_and_abstention.py
./tests/test_model_output_parquet_v1.py
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py
./tests/test_retained_4ply_reconciliation.py
./tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py
./tests/test_strict_clean_acquisition.py
./tests/test_targeted_feature_interaction.py
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:149:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_is_money", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "play_context", "boolean", "One for money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:150:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_match_length", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Match length; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:151:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_player_score", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled next-player-on-roll score; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:152:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_opponent_score", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled player's opponent score; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:153:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_player_away", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled next player points away; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:154:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_opponent_away", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled player's opponent points away; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:155:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_value", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "cube_value", "Current cube value.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:156:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_log2", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "doublings", "Base-two logarithm of current cube value.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:157:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_centered", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when the cube is centered.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:158:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owned_by_player", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when owned by the modeled next player.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:159:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when owned by the modeled player's opponent.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:160:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "category_code", "Centered 0, modeled-player-owned 1, opponent-owned -1.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:161:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_crawford", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "boolean", "One for a source-supported Crawford game; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:162:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_jacoby", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "money_context", "boolean", "One when Jacoby applies in money play; zero in match play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:163:    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_offer_pending", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "Native Match-ID doubled/pending-offer bit.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:208:        "direct_cubeful": {
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:264:def cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids: Sequence[str]) -> np.ndarray:
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_modeling.py:321:        raise AssertionError("invalid cubeful context matrix")
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v3_acquisition.sh:22:PROFILE=explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v3_acquisition.sh:77:assert contract["gnu"]["checker_evaluation"]["cubeful"] is True
./src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py:964:        "convergence_repair": "ADDEQ_TRAINING_ONLY_UNIFORM",
./src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py:1181:        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py:1218:        "calculated_cubeful_blocked": summary["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./src/backgammon_explainer/hfcs_capacity.py:16:EXPECTED_PROFILE = "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3"
./src/backgammon_explainer/data_efficiency.py:77:SHALLOW_PRETRAIN_IDENTITY = "explainer-feature-v2-250-shallow-pretrained-residual-v1"
./src/backgammon_explainer/data_efficiency.py:601:        "identity": SHALLOW_PRETRAIN_IDENTITY,
./src/backgammon_explainer/data_efficiency.py:718:        "identity": SHALLOW_PRETRAIN_IDENTITY,
./src/backgammon_explainer/gnu_review_parser.py:58:    "cubeful",
./src/backgammon_explainer/gnu_review_parser.py:163:    cubeful: bool
./src/backgammon_explainer/gnu_review_parser.py:434:                cubeful=mode == "Cubeful",
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_learning_curve.py:53:TRAINING_FRACTIONS = (20, 40, 60, 80, 100)
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_learning_curve.py:68:        "training_fractions_percent": list(TRAINING_FRACTIONS),
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_learning_curve.py:163:    for fraction in TRAINING_FRACTIONS:
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_learning_curve.py:406:        for fraction in TRAINING_FRACTIONS:
./src/backgammon_explainer/hadd_integration.py:33:SELECTED_ARCHITECTURE = "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1"
./src/backgammon_explainer/hadd_integration.py:784:            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_500_experiment.py:54:    TRAINING_FRACTIONS,
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_500_experiment.py:116:        "training_fractions_percent": list(TRAINING_FRACTIONS),
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_500_experiment.py:374:            "learning_curve_descriptor_sha256": learning_curve_sha256(), "learning_curve_fractions_percent": list(TRAINING_FRACTIONS),
./scripts/run_deep_4ply_hfcs_v2.sh:16:PROFILE=explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-historical-analysis-filter-v2
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_250_experiment.py:62:    TRAINING_FRACTIONS,
./src/backgammon_explainer/feature_v2_250_experiment.py:259:        identity = {"experiment_version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION, "experiment_contract_version": EXPERIMENT_CONTRACT_VERSION, "producing_commit": code_git_commit, "canonical_manifest_sha256": ACCEPTED_CANONICAL_MANIFEST_SHA256, "accepted_75_package_path": str(accepted_75_package), "accepted_100_package_path": str(accepted_100_package), "accepted_100_experiment_path": str(accepted_100_experiment), "accepted_100_experiment_identity": ACCEPTED_100_EXPERIMENT_IDENTITY, "feature_250_package_path": str(feature_250_package), "feature_250_package_identity": feature_proof["identity_sha256"], "feature_250_package_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(feature_250_package / "manifest.json"), "expanded_registry_version": EXPANDED_REGISTRY_VERSION, "expanded_registry_sha256": expanded_registry_sha256(), "feature_set_version": FEATURE_SET_VERSION, "feature_set_sha256": feature_set_sha256(), "feature_count": EXPANDED_FEATURE_COUNT, "null_policy_version": NULL_POLICY_VERSION, "null_policy_sha256": null_policy_sha256(), "foundation_model_sha256": ACCEPTED_FOUNDATION_SHA256, "evaluation_contract_version": EVALUATION_CONTRACT_VERSION, "evaluation_contract_sha256": sha256_json(evaluation_contract()), "split_version": SPLIT_VERSION, "split_seed": SPLIT_SEED, "split_assignment_sha256": folds[0]["assignment_sha256"], "tie_policy_version": TIE_POLICY_VERSION, "learning_curve_descriptor_sha256": learning_curve_sha256(), "learning_curve_fractions_percent": list(TRAINING_FRACTIONS), "methodology_overrides": {}, "model_output_contract_version": MODEL_OUTPUT_CONTRACT_VERSION, "model_output_package_id": model_output_id, "population_candidate_rows": 6963, "population_decisions": 2136, "experiments_run": ["feature-v2-250-primary", "baseline-17-learning-curve", "feature-v2-100-learning-curve", "feature-v2-250-learning-curve"], "accepted_results_reused": ["baseline-17-primary", "feature-v2-100-primary"], "experiments_not_run": ["feature-v2-500", "final-promotion", "gnu-evidence-generation"]}
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:232:        if row["analysis_profile_id"] != "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3":
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1098:            "acquisition_profile": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3",
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:36:PROFILE_ID_V1 = "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1"
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:38:    "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-"
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:41:PROFILE_ID_V3 = "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3"
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:384:        "cubeful": True,
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:952:        "set evaluation chequerplay evaluation cubeful on",
./src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:1027:        "`eval' and `hint' chequerplay will use cubeful evaluation.",
./src/backgammon_explainer/hadd_compact_commissioning.py:806:        "calculated_cubeful_blocked": summary["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./src/backgammon_explainer/hadd_compact_commissioning.py:941:        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./src/backgammon_explainer/hadd_compact_commissioning.py:968:            {"name": "calculated cubeful authority blocked", "status": "PASS"},
./config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:32:    "analysis_profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:30:    cubeful_context_matrix,
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:41:    "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:73:          count_if(evaluation_mode <> 'Cubeful') non_cubeful_labels,
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:88:        "candidate_rows", "decisions", "non_cubeful_labels", "wrong_transform",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:94:    if any(perspective_proof[key] for key in ("non_cubeful_labels", "wrong_transform", "rank1_not_best")):
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:95:        raise RuntimeError("native Cubeful perspective gates failed")
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:113:            {"path": str(sage_cube), "sha256": sha256_file(sage_cube), "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation"},
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:114:            {"path": str(gnu_cube), "sha256": sha256_file(gnu_cube), "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation"},
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:116:        "blocker": "No accepted artifact supplies an unambiguous versioned function mapping arbitrary predicted position probabilities plus cube/match context to cubeful equity; the located rollout comparison authority is unfinished. Replacing it would invent cube science.",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:140:        "direct_cubeful_perspective_proof": {
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:142:            "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is emitted for the checker-move player; rank 1 maximizes it.",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:149:        "calculated_cubeful_authority": authority_search,
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:311:        context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:706:def score_direct_cubeful_holdout(
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:733:            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)))
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:747:        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-direct-cubeful-v1",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:844:    cubeful_models = [model for model in models if model.targets == (TARGETS[6],)]
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:845:    if len(cubeful_models) != 1:
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:847:    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:848:    cubeful_prediction = cubeful_models[0].predict(np.column_stack((x, context)))[:, 0]
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:849:    cubeful_truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:850:    cubeful = RegressionMetrics(); cubeful.add(cubeful_prediction, cubeful_truth)
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:856:        "direct_cubeful_supplementary": {"target_transform": "-native_equity", "metrics": cubeful.result()},
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:899:            context = cubeful_context_matrix([
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:976:        "calculated_cubeful_explanation": "NOT_FABRICATED: CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED; no cube-valuation adjustment decomposition exists.",
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1002:    cubeful = json.loads((evidence_root / "direct-cubeful.json").read_text())
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1051:        "direct_cubeful": {"status": "PASS", "holdout": cubeful, "frozen_4ply": deep["direct_cubeful_supplementary"]},
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1052:        "calculated_cubeful": authorities["calculated_cubeful_authority"],
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1054:            "direct_target": authorities["direct_cubeful_perspective_proof"],
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1055:            "calculation_authority": authorities["calculated_cubeful_authority"],
./src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1082:            "direct_cubeful": cubeful["identity_sha256"], "contributions": contributions["identity_sha256"],
./src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:78:TRAINING_TARGETS = (38_527, 100_000, 250_000, 500_000, 1_000_000)
./src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:93:CHECKPOINT_LABELS = tuple(str(value) for value in TRAINING_TARGETS) + ("full",)
./src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:592:    for target in TRAINING_TARGETS:
./src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:687:            "shallow_checkpoints": [str(value) for value in TRAINING_TARGETS] + ["full"],
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py:18:    score_direct_cubeful_holdout,
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py:33:    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=("freeze-registries", "freeze-authorities", "accumulate", "fit", "score-holdout", "score-cubeful", "score-deep", "contributions", "summarize"))
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py:64:    if args.phase == "score-cubeful":
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py:65:        result = score_direct_cubeful_holdout(
./scripts/run_position_value_modeling.py:67:            output_path=ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json", batch_size=args.batch_size,
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-strict-clean-selection-v2.json:7:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3"
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1.json:109:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1.json:113:      "cubeful": true,
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1.json:135:    "settings_only_readback": "The frozen command syntax was executed without gnubgid/hint/eval/analyse/analyze/play/roll/move and GNU confirmed 4-ply, cubeful, noiseless, pruning, and deterministic-noise mode. No position evaluation occurred.",
./scripts/verify_position_value_evidence.py:102:    perspective = authority["direct_cubeful_perspective_proof"]
./scripts/verify_position_value_evidence.py:114:    check("native_cubeful_target_proved", perspective["data_proof"]["rank1_not_best"] == 0 and perspective["data_proof"]["non_cubeful_labels"] == 0, perspective["data_proof"])
./scripts/verify_position_value_evidence.py:115:    calc = authority["calculated_cubeful_authority"]
./scripts/commission_hadd_integration.py:311:            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./scripts/commission_hadd_integration.py:356:            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./scripts/commission_hadd_integration.py:399:            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./docs/modeling/explainer-k002-hadd-compact-runtime-v1.md:59:Production remains `UNCHANGED`. Calculated cubeful remains
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-k002-hfcs-v3-execution-policy-v1.json:30:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3"
./scripts/validate_gnu0ply_one_hour.py:341:        "all_candidate_modes_cubeful": readback["evaluation_mode"] == {"Cubeful": EXPECTED_CANDIDATES},
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_modeling_smoke.py:596:            "Preserved as GNU native Cubeful candidate equity; first smoke models canonical "
./scripts/commission_canonical_analysis_reference.py:1447:                "GNU native Cubeful equity remains native_equity and is not called cubeless",
./scripts/run_gnu0ply_learning_curve.py:271:            "GNU native cubeful rank is not used as the ranking truth"
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-freeze-v1.md:94:`explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1`: standard money play,
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-freeze-v1.md:98:cubeful on, noise exactly 0.000, pruning on, deterministic on, and at most five
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-freeze-v1.md:102:cubeful, noiseless, pruning neural nets, and deterministic-noise mode. It did not
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-planner-reconciliation-v2.md:6:`explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1` without altering or
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-planner-reconciliation-v2.md:12:cubeful, noise 0.000, pruning on, deterministic on, followed by `hint 5`. It
./docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-planner-reconciliation-v2.md:103:`explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-historical-analysis-filter-v2`.
./docs/modeling/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-v1.md:7:- `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_PRESENT`
./docs/modeling/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-v1.md:11:- calculated cubeful: `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
./docs/deep-4ply-hfcs-capacity-v1.md:3:This operational layer changes concurrency only. It pins source-authority-v2 `81f6badf25317dd6873c7cef80214ace3e2f0962681d19af1f1daf2f6c669d02`, strict-clean-v2 `d65b00ae9cff7de19d6886bd4f7fd0df73846f7bc9372c2f40d1573bd1e7cf37`, V3 profile `explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3`, and move-filter identity `c549dfadee12c64a581856b4cd78d4d983c4fba0bf4db1e35db8730125a7c09e`.
./docs/contracts/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.md:66:This value is not native engine equity, Ridge desirability, checker-player perspective, or calculated cubeful equity. Lower static next-player-on-roll value is better for the original checker-move player only in retained diagnostics; HADD ranking is not authorized in the product contract.
./docs/contracts/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.md:90:The schema contains HADD cumulative probabilities, redundant lose, probability-derived cubeless position value, conditional logits, intercepts, ordered per-feature conditional-logit contributions, reconstruction evidence, and separately reconstructed A-minus-B evidence. It contains no HADD ranking or recommendation and no calculated cubeful field.
./docs/contracts/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.md:116:Calculated cubeful fields and unrelated direct cubeful research predictions are excluded. New GNU computations, source matches, labels, and training/refits are zero. Canonical, Analyzer, Corpus, and production remain unchanged.
./docs/contracts/gnu-review-candidate-pilot-schema.md:44:| `cubeful` | boolean | Explicit `Cubeful` versus `Cubeless` token |
./tests/test_deep_4ply_acquisition.py:88:        "`eval' and `hint' chequerplay will use cubeful evaluation.",
./tests/test_deep_4ply_acquisition.py:720:        self.assertIn("set evaluation chequerplay evaluation cubeful on\n", command)
./docs/contracts/explainer-k002-hadd-analyzer-read-only-integration-v1.md:39:HADD probabilities and probability-derived cubeless value describe the normalized static post-move next player on roll. They do not replace native engine equity and are not calculated cubeful equity. Calculated cubeful remains `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`.
./docs/modeling/position-value-modeling-v1.md:18:P0–P3 contain normalized resulting-position features only. Original, delta, action, dice, source, evaluation, prediction, rank, and cube/match context fields are excluded. The direct cubeful model alone adds the frozen 15-feature cube/match-context registry.
./docs/modeling/position-value-modeling-v1.md:83:The source-native checker-candidate equity is for the moving player: rank 1 maximizes native equity with zero violations across 51,375,278 rows. The static result position is modeled for the other player on roll, so the proved zero-sum target is `-native_equity`; scores and cube ownership are projected to that player. The P3 plus 15-context direct cubeful model scores .297073 RMSE, .221516 MAE, −.000081 bias, .796043 R2, and .892213 correlation on the shallow holdout. Frozen-4ply supplementary RMSE is .380501 with .072138 bias and .892697 correlation.
./docs/modeling/position-value-modeling-v1.md:85:Calculated cubeful is `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. The exact search froze task-management commit `628776e2bb29b981383d6557ed312195d12544b3`, implementation commit `cc05d0ddc61c56bb488bceebc6447048f7d22787`, Sage control-tower commit `637031fc081d4ac868cf7f9ac32a5f63783e3fb0`, and engine-kit commit `833929ea72ccec058527f3cd1fa0b54a07ac666b`. It found unfinished rollout-comparison tasks and isolated engine examples, but no accepted general function from arbitrary predicted probabilities and context to cubeful equity. No substitute was invented.
./docs/modeling/position-value-modeling-v1.md:89:Every retained model stores raw per-feature coefficients and exact per-feature contributions for a fixed two-candidate contrast. Position prediction, A-minus-B move explanation, and probability-derived cubeless reconstruction have global maximum absolute errors 1.78e-15, 4.86e-16, and 2.00e-15. Shared prime features cancel exactly; the normalized opponent 5-point-made feature supplies the explicit move-result contrast. No calculated-cubeful decomposition is fabricated.
./docs/contracts/canonical-analysis-parquet-v1.md:156:Native fields are explicitly prefixed `native_...` and may retain both lexical source strings and parsed numeric values. Native GNU candidate equity labeled `Cubeful` remains native Cubeful equity. It is never relabeled cubeless.
./docs/handoffs/research/2026-07-22-candidate-parser-pilot.md:147:- All selected candidates are cubeful; cubeless candidate rows are supported by
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-strict-clean-selection-v1.json:5:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v2.json:109:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-historical-analysis-filter-v2",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v2.json:113:      "cubeful": true,
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v2.json:204:    "settings_only_readback": "The v2 command syntax must make GNU read back 4-ply, cubeful, noiseless, pruning, deterministic-noise mode, and the exact explicit 16/0.320 then 4/0.080 historical analysis move-filter ladder before any output is accepted.",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v2.json:312:    "predecessor_profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.json:109:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.json:113:      "cubeful": true,
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.json:221:    "settings_only_readback": "The V3 command makes GNU read back 4-ply, cubeful, noiseless, pruning, deterministic mode, the human move-filter ladder, and the canonical settings serialization containing all five fields for all ten ladder rows.",
./config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.json:326:    "predecessor_profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-historical-analysis-filter-v2",
./config/integration/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.json:6:    "identity": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
./config/integration/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.json:681:    "calculated_cubeful_fields_allowed": false
./config/integration/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.json:733:  "calculated_cubeful": {
./config/integration/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1.json:736:    "direct_cubeful_research_predictions_included": false
./config/integration/explainer-hadd-derived-facts-sidecar-v1.schema.json:32:    "selected_architecture": {"const": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1"},
./tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py:17:    TRAINING_TARGETS,
./tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py:44:        self.assertEqual(TRAINING_TARGETS, (38527, 100000, 250000, 500000, 1000000))
./tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py:129:        boundaries = [checkpoints[str(value)]["game_prefix_length"] for value in TRAINING_TARGETS]
./config/integration/explainer-k002-hadd-analyzer-read-only-integration-v1.json:54:    "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
./tests/test_hadd_integration.py:225:    assert first["target"]["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py:13:    cubeful_context_matrix,
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py:54:def test_cubeful_context_projects_to_next_player() -> None:
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py:58:    matrix = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py:65:        assert matrix[index, ids.index("cubeful_player_score")] == expected_player_score
./tests/test_position_value_modeling.py:68:        assert matrix[index, ids.index("cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code")] == expected_code
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/protocol.md:7:- Targets: five nonredundant cumulative probabilities, a separately fitted direct cubeless head, and a separately fitted direct cubeful head after target-perspective proof.
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/protocol.md:9:- Pure feature sets: P0/P1/P2/P3 contain resulting-position information only. Cube/match context is confined to the direct cubeful model.
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/protocol.md:12:- Calculated cubeful: fail closed unless an exact accepted probability-plus-context cube authority can be identified. No replacement cube science may be invented.
./artifacts/development/deep_4ply_planner_reconciliation_v2/historical-authority.json:46:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-v1",
./artifacts/development/deep_4ply_planner_reconciliation_v2/historical-authority.json:53:    "profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-five-candidate-historical-analysis-filter-v2",
./.git/HEAD:1:ref: refs/heads/research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/direct-cubeful.json:51:  "target": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/direct-cubeful.json:52:  "version": "explainer-k002-position-value-modeling-v1-direct-cubeful-v1"
./tests/test_data_efficiency.py:16:    SHALLOW_PRETRAIN_IDENTITY,
./tests/test_data_efficiency.py:136:        self.assertNotEqual(SHALLOW_PRETRAIN_IDENTITY, "explainer-feature-v2-250-v1")
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:8:  "calculated_cubeful_authority": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:9:    "blocker": "No accepted artifact supplies an unambiguous versioned function mapping arbitrary predicted position probabilities plus cube/match context to cubeful equity; the located rollout comparison authority is unfinished. Replacing it would invent cube science.",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:23:        "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:28:        "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:52:  "direct_cubeful_perspective_proof": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:61:      "non_cubeful_labels": 0,
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json:72:    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is emitted for the checker-move player; rank 1 maximizes it.",
./tests/test_feature_v2_250.py:42:    TRAINING_FRACTIONS,
./tests/test_feature_v2_250.py:176:            self.assertEqual(list(TRAINING_FRACTIONS), [row["fraction_percent"] for row in first])
./.git/config:12:[branch "research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001"]
./.git/config:14:	merge = refs/heads/research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:2:  "direct_cubeful": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3519:        "feature_id": "cubeful_is_money",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3529:        "feature_id": "cubeful_match_length",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3539:        "feature_id": "cubeful_player_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3549:        "feature_id": "cubeful_opponent_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3559:        "feature_id": "cubeful_player_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3569:        "feature_id": "cubeful_opponent_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3579:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_value",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3589:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_log2",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3599:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_centered",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3609:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3619:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3629:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3639:        "feature_id": "cubeful_crawford",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3649:        "feature_id": "cubeful_jacoby",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json:3659:        "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_offer_pending",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:499:  "calculated_cubeful": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:500:    "blocker": "No accepted artifact supplies an unambiguous versioned function mapping arbitrary predicted position probabilities plus cube/match context to cubeful equity; the located rollout comparison authority is unfinished. Replacing it would invent cube science.",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:514:        "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:519:        "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:545:      "blocker": "No accepted artifact supplies an unambiguous versioned function mapping arbitrary predicted position probabilities plus cube/match context to cubeful equity; the located rollout comparison authority is unfinished. Replacing it would invent cube science.",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:559:          "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:564:          "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:597:        "non_cubeful_labels": 0,
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:608:      "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is emitted for the checker-move player; rank 1 maximizes it.",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:615:    "direct_cubeful": "1593bfb56d4a145742492cd17997c15f23bd3f66167a1efa95002c1f01b695fa",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:622:  "direct_cubeful": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:684:      "target": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/result-summary.json:685:      "version": "explainer-k002-position-value-modeling-v1-direct-cubeful-v1"
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-4ply-transfer.json:5:  "direct_cubeful_supplementary": {
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/self-verification.json:197:        "non_cubeful_labels": 0,
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/self-verification.json:207:      "name": "native_cubeful_target_proved",
./tests/fixtures/hadd-integration/actual-4ply-canonical-pair-sidecar-v1.json:10710:  "selected_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
./tests/fixtures/hadd-integration/actual-4ply-canonical-pair-sidecar-v1.json:10712:    "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/training-statistics.json:127:    "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50975:        "cubeful_is_money",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50976:        "cubeful_match_length",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50977:        "cubeful_player_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50978:        "cubeful_opponent_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50979:        "cubeful_player_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50980:        "cubeful_opponent_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50981:        "cubeful_cube_value",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50982:        "cubeful_cube_log2",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50983:        "cubeful_cube_centered",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50984:        "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50985:        "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50986:        "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50987:        "cubeful_crawford",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50988:        "cubeful_jacoby",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:50989:        "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json:52475:        "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
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./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/manifest.json:10:      "path": "direct-cubeful.json",
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./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/result-summary.json:2249:  "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41817:          "feature_id": "cubeful_is_money",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41831:          "feature_id": "cubeful_match_length",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41845:          "feature_id": "cubeful_player_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41859:          "feature_id": "cubeful_opponent_score",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41873:          "feature_id": "cubeful_player_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41887:          "feature_id": "cubeful_opponent_away",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41901:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_value",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41915:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_log2",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41929:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_centered",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41943:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41957:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41971:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41985:          "feature_id": "cubeful_crawford",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:41999:          "feature_id": "cubeful_jacoby",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:42013:          "feature_id": "cubeful_cube_offer_pending",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:42030:        "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/contribution-evidence.json:105514:  "calculated_cubeful_explanation": "NOT_FABRICATED: CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED; no cube-valuation adjustment decomposition exists.",
./.git/FETCH_HEAD:1:58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285		branch 'research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001' of github.com:backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/self-verification.json:96:      "name": "calculated_cubeful_blocked",
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:5:Status: `CONSTRAINED_ADDITIVE_POSITION_MODEL_PROTOCOL_FROZEN_READY_FOR_CODEX`
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:61:The calculated-cubeful authority blocker from the completed position-value task remains unchanged. This task does not invent new cube valuation science.
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:270:Report `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_PRESENT` only if at least one constrained candidate:
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:277:Otherwise report `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_NOT_ESTABLISHED`.
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:301:Do not rerun or reinterpret calculated cubeful in this task. Preserve:
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:303:- direct cubeful target perspective proof: accepted
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:305:- calculated cubeful: `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md:355:`EXPLAINER K002 CONSTRAINED/ADDITIVE POSITION MODEL RESULT`
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./artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/frozen-authorities.json:29:  "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
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# Position-value modeling v1

## Result

This research run establishes absolute resulting-position value modeling as viable, but it does not promote a production model. P3 representation is materially better than P0–P2. More shallow data largely saturates near one million decisions. The direct cubeless Ridge head and the equity reconstructed from the five probability heads are identical to numerical precision, which is expected and now proved rather than assumed.

Production remains `explainer-feature-v2-250-v1` (pairwise Ridge D, alpha 10.0).

## Frozen feature sets

| Set | Count | Identity |
|---|---:|---|
| P0 | 52 | `explainer-position-value-p0-v1-4fab61a1057ed95e` |
| P1 | 244 | `explainer-position-value-p1-v1-0d79291de573d08c` |
| P2 | 315 | `explainer-position-value-p2-v1-fc510b933b3db865` |
| P3 | 351 | `explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64` |

P0–P3 contain normalized resulting-position features only. Original, delta, action, dice, source, evaluation, prediction, rank, and cube/match context fields are excluded. The direct cubeful model alone adds the frozen 15-feature cube/match-context registry.

## Shallow data learning curve: P3 Ridge

The fixed holdout contains 2,094,039 candidates in 100,015 whole-game-group-safe decisions.

| Training decisions | Mean probability RMSE | Win | Win G+ | Win BG | Lose G+ | Lose BG | Direct cubeless RMSE | Probability-derived RMSE | Direct-vs-derived RMSE |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 38,549 | .062424 | .104437 | .101265 | .029911 | .068640 | .007869 | .263467 | .263467 | 2.12e-12 |
| 100,009 | .062011 | .103916 | .100412 | .029575 | .068331 | .007821 | .262250 | .262250 | 2.48e-13 |
| 250,000 | .061974 | .103685 | .100117 | .029416 | .068772 | .007881 | .263162 | .263162 | 3.80e-13 |
| 500,011 | .061834 | .103491 | .099979 | .029473 | .068382 | .007845 | .262059 | .262059 | 3.36e-13 |
| 1,000,002 | .061676 | .103367 | .099798 | .029478 | .067933 | .007804 | **.261063** | **.261063** | 8.37e-14 |
| 1,916,406 | **.061667** | .103362 | .099800 | .029443 | .067939 | .007793 | .261154 | .261154 | 4.03e-14 |

The probability objective still improves by 0.000008 from 1M to full, while cubeless RMSE slightly worsens. The conclusion is `SATURATES`, not a claim that every metric is monotonic.

## Shallow feature learning curve

| Set | 250k probability RMSE | 250k cubeless RMSE | Full probability RMSE | Full cubeless RMSE |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| P0 | .077924 | .368266 | .077884 | .368064 |
| P1 | .070888 | .309468 | .070428 | .305789 |
| P2 | .063634 | .269104 | .063375 | .267413 |
| P3 | **.061974** | **.263162** | **.061667** | **.261154** |

Feature richness continues helping: `YES`.

## Probability diagnostics

For the best probability checkpoint, P3/full, head RMSEs are win .103362, win-gammon-or-better .099800, win-backgammon .029443, lose-gammon-or-worse .067939, and lose-backgammon .007793. Each head’s RMSE, MAE, bias, R2, correlation, ten calibration bins, and invalid-count evidence is retained in the detailed holdout artifact.

These are unconstrained linear heads. On the 2,094,039-candidate holdout their outside-[0,1] counts are 73,091; 160,878; 470,599; 265,395; and 572,231 in the same head order. Ordering violations are: win BG > win G+ 143,646; win G+ > win 6,515; lose BG > lose G+ 261,851; lose G+ > lose 51,995. Redundant lose is defined exactly as `1 - predicted win`, with maximum consistency error 0. These failures are not hidden by the mean objective.

## Cubeless identity and strata

For P3/full, direct cubeless RMSE is .261154, MAE .188850, bias .000134, R2 .839489, and correlation .916236. Stratum RMSE is .301929 bar, .423075 bearoff, .221643 contact, and .346521 race. P3/1M is the best direct and probability-derived shallow cubeless checkpoint at .261063.

The target identity is:

`2*P(win) - 1 + P(win G+) + P(win BG) - P(lose G+) - P(lose BG)`.

Because Ridge is affine, uses the same feature matrix and alpha for all heads, and the cubeless truth is exactly this affine combination, the separately fitted direct head equals the fixed combination of probability heads up to floating-point arithmetic. P3/full direct-vs-derived RMSE is 4.03e-14, bias 9.38e-16, and correlation 1.0.

## Frozen actual-4ply transfer

The population remains exactly 6,963 candidates / 2,136 decisions; all candidate siblings were excluded from shallow training. No literal GNU 0-ply evaluation value is an inference feature.

| Checkpoint | Mean probability RMSE | Direct cubeless RMSE | Derived cubeless RMSE |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| P3/38,549 | .081876 | .320691 | .320691 |
| P3/100,009 | .080581 | .318671 | .318671 |
| P3/250,000 | .080196 | .318053 | .318053 |
| P3/500,011 | .080126 | **.316756** | **.316756** |
| P3/1,000,002 | .080076 | .317097 | .317097 |
| P3/full | **.080036** | .317516 | .317516 |

P3/full’s five transfer head RMSEs are .154185, .123468, .028507, .088662, and .005360. Its downstream direct route has top-set accuracy .560861, exact-unique accuracy .514626, and mean regret .012828; all 2,136 decisions are fully novel. P3/500k has slightly better downstream values: .563670, .517335, and .012748. These are diagnostics, not the primitive objective.

## Interpretable models

Standardized Ridge alpha 10 is the retained interpretable model. The prior Elastic Net and quantile-hinge additive authorities are `NOT_PORTABLE_TO_POSITION_VALUE_OBJECTIVE`: both freeze pairwise-difference construction, weighting/folds, and ranking-based selection, so inventing absolute-target configurations would create a new grid. Additive nonlinear benefit and Ridge underfitting are therefore `INCONCLUSIVE`.

## Cubeful

The source-native checker-candidate equity is for the moving player: rank 1 maximizes native equity with zero violations across 51,375,278 rows. The static result position is modeled for the other player on roll, so the proved zero-sum target is `-native_equity`; scores and cube ownership are projected to that player. The P3 plus 15-context direct cubeful model scores .297073 RMSE, .221516 MAE, −.000081 bias, .796043 R2, and .892213 correlation on the shallow holdout. Frozen-4ply supplementary RMSE is .380501 with .072138 bias and .892697 correlation.

Calculated cubeful is `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. The exact search froze task-management commit `628776e2bb29b981383d6557ed312195d12544b3`, implementation commit `cc05d0ddc61c56bb488bceebc6447048f7d22787`, Sage control-tower commit `637031fc081d4ac868cf7f9ac32a5f63783e3fb0`, and engine-kit commit `833929ea72ccec058527f3cd1fa0b54a07ac666b`. It found unfinished rollout-comparison tasks and isolated engine examples, but no accepted general function from arbitrary predicted probabilities and context to cubeful equity. No substitute was invented.

## Explanations and interpretation

Every retained model stores raw per-feature coefficients and exact per-feature contributions for a fixed two-candidate contrast. Position prediction, A-minus-B move explanation, and probability-derived cubeless reconstruction have global maximum absolute errors 1.78e-15, 4.86e-16, and 2.00e-15. Shared prime features cancel exactly; the normalized opponent 5-point-made feature supplies the explicit move-result contrast. No calculated-cubeful decomposition is fabricated.

The bottleneck is `MIXTURE`: representation gains are strong, data gains flatten, class errors differ, and actual-4ply transfer exhibits target shift. Model-capacity underfitting cannot be isolated without a commissioned portable additive authority.

Recommended next task: commission and freeze an absolute-position additive-model selection authority, then test calibrated or shape-constrained probability heads on P3 without changing labels or production.

## Evidence

The immutable evidence package is `artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/`. The machine-readable result is `results/position-value-modeling-v1.json`. `manifest.json`, `SHA256SUMS`, and `self-verification.json` bind and verify the package.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Registry phase entry point for K002 position-value modeling."""

from __future__ import annotations

import argparse
import json
from pathlib import Path

from backgammon_explainer.canonical_analysis import stable_json
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import all_registry_descriptors
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_experiment import (
    accumulate_training_statistics,
    build_contribution_evidence,
    build_result_summary,
    fit_learning_curve_models,
    freeze_authorities,
    score_direct_cubeful_holdout,
    score_frozen_deep_transfer,
    score_shallow_holdout,
)


SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
TASK_MANAGEMENT = Path("/users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-task-management")


def main() -> int:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=("freeze-registries", "freeze-authorities", "accumulate", "fit", "score-holdout", "score-cubeful", "score-deep", "contributions", "summarize"))
    parser.add_argument("--output", type=Path, default=Path(
        "artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json"
    ))
    parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=10)
    parser.add_argument("--batch-size", type=int, default=8192)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if args.phase == "freeze-authorities":
        result = freeze_authorities(
            repository_root=Path.cwd(), task_management_root=TASK_MANAGEMENT,
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, canonical_package=CANONICAL,
            output_path=ROOT / "frozen-authorities.json",
        )
        print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True)); return 0
    if args.phase == "accumulate":
        result = accumulate_training_statistics(
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
            output_npz=ROOT / "training-statistics.npz",
            output_manifest=ROOT / "training-statistics.json",
            workers=args.workers, batch_size=args.batch_size,
        )
        print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True)); return 0
    if args.phase == "fit":
        result = fit_learning_curve_models(ROOT / "training-statistics.npz", ROOT / "models.json")
        print(json.dumps({key: result[key] for key in ("status", "identity_sha256")}, indent=2)); return 0
    if args.phase == "score-holdout":
        result = score_shallow_holdout(
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, models_path=ROOT / "models.json",
            output_path=ROOT / "shallow-holdout.json", batch_size=args.batch_size,
        )
        print(json.dumps({key: result[key] for key in ("status", "identity_sha256", "holdout_candidates", "holdout_decisions")}, indent=2)); return 0
    if args.phase == "score-cubeful":
        result = score_direct_cubeful_holdout(
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, models_path=ROOT / "models.json",
            output_path=ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json", batch_size=args.batch_size,
        )
        print(json.dumps({"status": result["status"], "identity_sha256": result["identity_sha256"], "metrics": result["metrics"]}, indent=2)); return 0
    if args.phase == "score-deep":
        result = score_frozen_deep_transfer(
            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=ROOT / "models.json",
            output_path=ROOT / "frozen-4ply-transfer.json",
        )
        print(json.dumps({key: result[key] for key in ("status", "identity_sha256", "candidates", "decisions")}, indent=2)); return 0
    if args.phase == "contributions":
        result = build_contribution_evidence(
            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=ROOT / "models.json",
            output_path=ROOT / "contribution-evidence.json",
        )
        print(json.dumps({key: result[key] for key in ("status", "identity_sha256", "global_maximum_errors")}, indent=2)); return 0
    if args.phase == "summarize":
        result = build_result_summary(
            evidence_root=ROOT, result_path=Path("results/position-value-modeling-v1.json"),
        )
        print(json.dumps({"status": result["status"], "identity_sha256": result["identity_sha256"]}, indent=2)); return 0
    payload = all_registry_descriptors()
    args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    args.output.write_text(stable_json(payload, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
    print(json.dumps({
        "path": str(args.output.resolve()),
        "feature_sets": {
            name: {key: value for key, value in descriptor.items() if key in (
                "feature_count", "registry_sha256", "feature_set_identity"
            )}
            for name, descriptor in payload["feature_sets"].items()
        },
    }, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    raise SystemExit(main())
"""Frozen pure-position feature registries for K002 position-value modeling.

This module deliberately contains no outcome-dependent feature selection.  P2
is the result-position projection of the accepted Feature V2 250 static basis,
with the four literal bar/off fields removed because P0 already contains them.
P3 adds only the commissioned non-pointwise Feature V2 502 measures.
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import hashlib
import math
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
from typing import Any, Sequence

import numpy as np

from .canonical_analysis import stable_json
from .feature_registry import STATE_MEASURES
from .feature_v2_250 import GEOMETRY_MEASURES
from .feature_v2_500 import STATIC_MEASURES


REGISTRY_VERSION = "explainer-k002-position-value-feature-registry-v1"
PERSPECTIVE = "normalized_static_post_move_next_player_on_roll"
ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_250_IDENTITY = (
    "cc3fe906c7d2a7f9352ba5adca001323072452d86213e7d07fda9d866e9065f0"
)
ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_250_REGISTRY_SHA256 = (
    "927a95011f1f4ef8b43fdcb9b7cff0a51eca4647b9b95c5ff2e56e6dc6a5eee4"
)
ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_502_FEATURE_SET_SHA256 = (
    "831d8eb5e30af6b9c8ed6a2956079f8da30b2df0f596828f8afccea98613f102"
)


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class PositionFeatureDefinition:
    feature_id: str
    feature_set_added: str
    family: str
    units: str
    definition: str
    perspective: str = PERSPECTIVE
    source_authority: str = "commissioned_position_value_protocol"
    source_feature_id: str | None = None

    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        return asdict(self)


def _p0_registry() -> list[PositionFeatureDefinition]:
    values: list[PositionFeatureDefinition] = []
    for label in ("player", "opponent"):
        for point in range(1, 25):
            values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
                f"{label}_point_{point:02d}_checkers", "P0", "raw_board", "checkers",
                f"{label.title()} checker count on relative point {point}.",
            ))
    for label in ("player", "opponent"):
        values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
            f"{label}_bar_checkers", "P0", "raw_board", "checkers",
            f"{label.title()} checker count on the bar.",
        ))
    for label in ("player", "opponent"):
        values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
            f"{label}_borne_off_checkers", "P0", "raw_board", "checkers",
            f"Fifteen minus all {label} checkers on points and bar.",
        ))
    return values


def _p1_additions() -> list[PositionFeatureDefinition]:
    semantics = (
        ("blot", "boolean", "One when checker count equals one."),
        ("made", "boolean", "One when checker count is at least two."),
        ("spares", "checkers", "Checker count above the two needed to make the point."),
        ("stack_over_4", "checkers", "Checker count above four."),
    )
    values: list[PositionFeatureDefinition] = []
    for label in ("player", "opponent"):
        for point in range(1, 25):
            for suffix, units, definition in semantics:
                values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
                    f"{label}_point_{point:02d}_{suffix}", "P1", "point_semantics", units,
                    f"{label.title()} relative point {point}: {definition}",
                ))
    return values


def _p2_additions() -> list[PositionFeatureDefinition]:
    values: list[PositionFeatureDefinition] = []
    for base_id, definition, units, family in STATE_MEASURES:
        values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
            base_id, "P2", family, units, definition,
            source_authority="explainer-feature-v2-250-v1",
            source_feature_id="result_" + base_id,
        ))
    geometry_100 = (
        ("player_home_board_checkers", "checkers", "checker_distribution", "Player checkers on points 1 through 6."),
        ("opponent_home_board_checkers", "checkers", "checker_distribution", "Opponent checkers on opponent-relative points 1 through 6."),
        ("player_outer_board_checkers", "checkers", "checker_distribution", "Player checkers on points 7 through 12."),
        ("opponent_outer_board_checkers", "checkers", "checker_distribution", "Opponent checkers on opponent-relative points 7 through 12."),
    )
    for base_id, units, family, definition in geometry_100:
        values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
            base_id, "P2", family, units, definition,
            source_authority="explainer-feature-v2-250-v1",
            source_feature_id="result_" + base_id,
        ))
    for base_id, units, family, definition in GEOMETRY_MEASURES:
        values.append(PositionFeatureDefinition(
            base_id, "P2", family, units, definition,
            source_authority="explainer-feature-v2-250-v1",
            source_feature_id="result_" + base_id,
        ))
    if len(values) != 71 or len({item.feature_id for item in values}) != 71:
        raise AssertionError("P2 must add 71 accepted static summaries")
    return values


def _p3_additions() -> list[PositionFeatureDefinition]:
    pointwise = {
        f"{label}_point_{point:02d}_checkers"
        for label in ("player", "opponent") for point in range(1, 25)
    }
    values = [
        PositionFeatureDefinition(
            base_id, "P3", family, units, definition,
            source_authority="explainer-feature-v2-502-v1",
            source_feature_id="result_" + base_id,
        )
        for base_id, units, family, definition in STATIC_MEASURES
        if base_id not in pointwise
    ]
    if len(values) != 36 or len({item.feature_id for item in values}) != 36:
        raise AssertionError("P3 must add 36 non-pointwise rich static measures")
    return values


P0_REGISTRY = tuple(_p0_registry())
P1_REGISTRY = (*P0_REGISTRY, *_p1_additions())
P2_REGISTRY = (*P1_REGISTRY, *_p2_additions())
P3_REGISTRY = (*P2_REGISTRY, *_p3_additions())
REGISTRIES = {"P0": P0_REGISTRY, "P1": P1_REGISTRY, "P2": P2_REGISTRY, "P3": P3_REGISTRY}
EXPECTED_COUNTS = {"P0": 52, "P1": 244, "P2": 315, "P3": 351}

CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY = (
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_is_money", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "play_context", "boolean", "One for money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_match_length", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Match length; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_player_score", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled next-player-on-roll score; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_opponent_score", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled player's opponent score; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_player_away", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled next player points away; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_opponent_away", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "points", "Modeled player's opponent points away; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_value", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "cube_value", "Current cube value.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_log2", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "doublings", "Base-two logarithm of current cube value.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_centered", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when the cube is centered.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owned_by_player", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when owned by the modeled next player.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "One when owned by the modeled player's opponent.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "category_code", "Centered 0, modeled-player-owned 1, opponent-owned -1.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_crawford", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "match_context", "boolean", "One for a source-supported Crawford game; zero in money play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_jacoby", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "money_context", "boolean", "One when Jacoby applies in money play; zero in match play.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
    PositionFeatureDefinition("cubeful_cube_offer_pending", "CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", "cube_context", "boolean", "Native Match-ID doubled/pending-offer bit.", source_authority="gnu_match_id_native"),
)
CUBEFUL_REGISTRY = (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)


def registry_descriptor(name: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
    registry = REGISTRIES[name]
    return {
        "registry_version": REGISTRY_VERSION,
        "feature_set": name,
        "feature_count": len(registry),
        "perspective": PERSPECTIVE,
        "accepted_lineage": {
            "feature_v2_250_package_identity": ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_250_IDENTITY,
            "feature_v2_250_registry_sha256": ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_250_REGISTRY_SHA256,
            "feature_v2_502_feature_set_sha256": ACCEPTED_FEATURE_V2_502_FEATURE_SET_SHA256,
        },
        "forbidden_inputs": [
            "original_position", "delta_from_original", "action_or_move", "decision_dice",
            "match_or_cube_context", "source_identity", "native_rank", "target",
            "evaluation", "prediction",
        ],
        "ordered_features": [item.descriptor() for item in registry],
    }


def registry_sha256(name: str) -> str:
    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(registry_descriptor(name)).encode()).hexdigest()


def feature_set_identity(name: str) -> str:
    return f"explainer-position-value-{name.lower()}-v1-{registry_sha256(name)[:16]}"


def all_registry_descriptors() -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {
        "registry_version": REGISTRY_VERSION,
        "feature_sets": {
            name: {
                **registry_descriptor(name),
                "registry_sha256": registry_sha256(name),
                "feature_set_identity": feature_set_identity(name),
            }
            for name in REGISTRIES
        },
        "direct_cubeful": {
            "feature_count": len(CUBEFUL_REGISTRY),
            "position_prefix": "P3",
            "position_feature_count": len(P3_REGISTRY),
            "context_feature_count": len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY),
            "perspective": PERSPECTIVE,
            "post_crawford_included": False,
            "post_crawford_reason": "not independently supported by isolated GNU Match ID",
            "ordered_features": [item.descriptor() for item in CUBEFUL_REGISTRY],
        },
    }


_B64_LOOKUP = np.full(256, 255, dtype=np.uint8)
for _index, _char in enumerate(b"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"):
    _B64_LOOKUP[_char] = _index


def decode_position_ids(position_ids: Sequence[str]) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    """Vector-decode GNU Position IDs into player/opponent 25-cell arrays."""

    count = len(position_ids)
    if not count:
        empty = np.empty((0, 25), dtype=np.int8)
        return empty, empty.copy()
    raw = "".join(position_ids).encode("ascii")
    if len(raw) != count * 14:
        raise ValueError("every GNU Position ID must contain exactly 14 characters")
    encoded = _B64_LOOKUP[np.frombuffer(raw, dtype=np.uint8)].reshape(count, 14)
    if np.any(encoded == 255):
        raise ValueError("GNU Position ID contains a non-base64 character")
    payload = np.empty((count, 10), dtype=np.uint8)
    for source, destination in ((0, 0), (4, 3), (8, 6)):
        a, b, c, d = (encoded[:, source + offset] for offset in range(4))
        payload[:, destination] = (a << 2) | (b >> 4)
        payload[:, destination + 1] = (b << 4) | (c >> 2)
        payload[:, destination + 2] = (c << 6) | d
    payload[:, 9] = (encoded[:, 12] << 2) | (encoded[:, 13] >> 4)
    bits = np.pad(np.unpackbits(payload, axis=1, bitorder="little"), ((0, 0), (0, 15)))
    rows = np.arange(count)[:, None]
    offsets = np.arange(16)[None, :]
    cursor = np.zeros(count, dtype=np.int16)
    cells = np.empty((count, 50), dtype=np.int8)
    for cell in range(50):
        window = bits[rows, cursor[:, None] + offsets]
        checker_count = np.argmax(window == 0, axis=1)
        cells[:, cell] = checker_count
        cursor += checker_count + 1
    if np.any(cursor > 80) or np.any(bits[np.arange(count)[:, None], np.arange(80, 95)]):
        raise ValueError("GNU Position ID unary board payload is malformed")
    opponent, player = cells[:, :25], cells[:, 25:]
    if np.any(player.sum(axis=1) > 15) or np.any(opponent.sum(axis=1) > 15):
        raise ValueError("GNU Position ID contains more than fifteen checkers")
    return player, opponent


def cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids: Sequence[str]) -> np.ndarray:
    """Decode source Match IDs and project context to the post-move next player."""

    count = len(match_ids)
    if not count:
        return np.empty((0, len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)), dtype=float)
    raw = "".join(match_ids).encode("ascii")
    if len(raw) != count * 12:
        raise ValueError("every GNU Match ID must contain exactly 12 characters")
    encoded = _B64_LOOKUP[np.frombuffer(raw, dtype=np.uint8)].reshape(count, 12)
    if np.any(encoded == 255):
        raise ValueError("GNU Match ID contains a non-base64 character")
    payload = np.empty((count, 9), dtype=np.uint8)
    for source, destination in ((0, 0), (4, 3), (8, 6)):
        a, b, c, d = (encoded[:, source + offset] for offset in range(4))
        payload[:, destination] = (a << 2) | (b >> 4)
        payload[:, destination + 1] = (b << 4) | (c >> 2)
        payload[:, destination + 2] = (c << 6) | d
    bits = np.unpackbits(payload, axis=1, bitorder="little")

    def field(start: int, width: int) -> np.ndarray:
        return sum(bits[:, start + offset].astype(np.int64) << offset for offset in range(width))

    cube_exponent = field(0, 4)
    raw_owner = field(4, 2)
    source_player = field(6, 1)
    crawford = field(7, 1)
    doubled = field(12, 1)
    match_length = field(21, 15)
    score0, score1 = field(36, 15), field(51, 15)
    jacoby = 1 - field(66, 1)
    modeled_player = 1 - source_player
    player_score = np.where(modeled_player == 0, score0, score1)
    opponent_score = np.where(modeled_player == 0, score1, score0)
    money = match_length == 0
    centered = ~np.isin(raw_owner, (0, 1))
    owned_player = (~centered) & (raw_owner == modeled_player)
    owned_opponent = (~centered) & ~owned_player
    cube_value = np.left_shift(1, cube_exponent)
    matrix = np.column_stack((
        money,
        match_length,
        np.where(money, 0, player_score),
        np.where(money, 0, opponent_score),
        np.where(money, 0, match_length - player_score),
        np.where(money, 0, match_length - opponent_score),
        cube_value,
        cube_exponent,
        centered,
        owned_player,
        owned_opponent,
        np.where(owned_player, 1, np.where(owned_opponent, -1, 0)),
        np.where(money, 0, crawford),
        np.where(money, jacoby, 0),
        doubled,
    )).astype(float)
    if matrix.shape != (count, len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)) or not np.isfinite(matrix).all():
        raise AssertionError("invalid cubeful context matrix")
    return matrix


def _rear(values: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    occupied = values[:, :24] > 0
    result = np.max(occupied * np.arange(1, 25), axis=1).astype(float)
    return np.where(values[:, 24] > 0, 25.0, result)


def _front(values: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    occupied = values[:, :24] > 0
    result = np.min(np.where(occupied, np.arange(1, 25), 25), axis=1).astype(float)
    return np.where(occupied.any(axis=1), result, np.where(values[:, 24] > 0, 25.0, 0.0))


def _longest_made(values: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    current = np.zeros(len(values), dtype=np.int8)
    longest = np.zeros(len(values), dtype=np.int8)
    for point in range(values.shape[1]):
        current = np.where(values[:, point] >= 2, current + 1, 0)
        longest = np.maximum(longest, current)
    return longest.astype(float)


def _span(values: np.ndarray, threshold: int) -> np.ndarray:
    selected = values[:, :24] >= threshold
    low = np.min(np.where(selected, np.arange(1, 25), 25), axis=1)
    high = np.max(selected * np.arange(1, 25), axis=1)
    return np.where(selected.sum(axis=1) >= 2, high - low, 0).astype(float)


def _direct_hits(player: np.ndarray, opponent: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    output = np.zeros(len(player), dtype=float)
    opponent_bar = opponent[:, 24] > 0
    for die in range(1, 7):
        from_bar = player[:, die - 1] == 1
        board_hit = np.zeros(len(player), dtype=bool)
        for source in range(die, 24):
            destination = source - die
            board_hit |= (opponent[:, source] > 0) & (player[:, 23 - destination] == 1)
        output += np.where(opponent_bar, from_bar, board_hit)
    return output


def _weighted_shape(values: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, ...]:
    weights = values.astype(float)
    points = np.arange(1, 26, dtype=float)
    total = weights.sum(axis=1)
    safe = np.where(total > 0, total, 1.0)
    mean = (weights * points).sum(axis=1) / safe
    centered = points - mean[:, None]
    mad = (weights * np.abs(centered)).sum(axis=1) / safe
    variance = (weights * centered ** 2).sum(axis=1) / safe
    std = np.sqrt(variance)
    skew = np.divide(
        (weights * centered ** 3).sum(axis=1) / safe,
        std ** 3,
        out=np.zeros_like(std),
        where=std > 0,

exec
/bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py && sed -n '220,520p' src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py && sed -n '680,790p' src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py && sed -n '820,1020p' src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py && sed -n '1,180p' tests/test_position_value_modeling.py" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 0ms:
"""Existing-data-only K002 position-value experiment runner."""

from __future__ import annotations

import bisect
import hashlib
import json
import math
import os
import resource
import subprocess
import time
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence

import duckdb
import numpy as np
import pyarrow.parquet as pq

from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
from .position_value_modeling import (
    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
    CUBEFUL_REGISTRY,
    EXPECTED_COUNTS,
    REGISTRIES,
    P3_REGISTRY,
    all_registry_descriptors,
    cubeful_context_matrix,
    feature_set_identity,
    position_feature_matrix,
    registry_sha256,
)


EXPERIMENT_VERSION = "explainer-k002-position-value-modeling-v1"
TARGETS = (
    "win", "win_gammon_or_better", "win_backgammon",
    "lose_gammon_or_worse", "lose_backgammon", "cubeless_money_equity_derived",
    "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
)
SOURCE_COLUMNS = (
    "game_key", "decision_id", "static_position_id_on_roll", "source_match_id",
    "static_win", "static_win_gammon_or_better", "static_win_backgammon",
    "static_lose", "static_lose_gammon_or_worse", "static_lose_backgammon",
    "cubeless_money_equity", "native_equity", "reconstruction_status",
    "perspective_transform_version",
)
CHECKPOINTS = ("38527", "100000", "250000", "500000", "1000000", "full")
PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS = np.asarray((2.0, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0, -1.0))
ALPHA = 10.0


def freeze_authorities(
    *, repository_root: Path, task_management_root: Path, shallow_root: Path,
    split_manifest: Path, canonical_package: Path, output_path: Path,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Freeze source, split, perspective, and fail-closed cube authorities."""

    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    candidate_glob = str(shallow_root / "worker_partitions/*/*/candidates.parquet")
    con = duckdb.connect()
    con.execute("SET threads=12")
    con.execute("SET memory_limit='24GB'")
    perspective = con.execute(f"""
        WITH projected AS (
          SELECT *, max(native_equity) OVER (PARTITION BY decision_id) best_native
          FROM read_parquet('{candidate_glob}')
        )
        SELECT count(*) candidate_rows,
          count(DISTINCT decision_id) decisions,
          count_if(evaluation_mode <> 'Cubeful') non_cubeful_labels,
          count_if(perspective_transform_version <> 'gnu-candidate-to-static-on-roll-v1') wrong_transform,
          max(abs(static_win-native_lose)) transform_win_error,
          max(abs(static_win_gammon_or_better-native_lose_gammon)) transform_win_g_error,
          max(abs(static_win_backgammon-native_lose_backgammon)) transform_win_bg_error,
          max(abs(static_lose-native_win)) transform_lose_error,
          max(abs(static_lose_gammon_or_worse-native_win_gammon)) transform_lose_g_error,
          max(abs(static_lose_backgammon-native_win_backgammon)) transform_lose_bg_error,
          max(abs(cubeless_money_equity-(2*static_win-1+static_win_gammon_or_better+static_win_backgammon-static_lose_gammon_or_worse-static_lose_backgammon))) cubeless_identity_error,
          count_if(rank=1 AND abs(native_equity-best_native)>1e-12) rank1_not_best,
          max(abs(difference_from_best-(native_equity-best_native))) difference_identity_error
        FROM projected
    """).fetchone()
    con.close()
    perspective_keys = (
        "candidate_rows", "decisions", "non_cubeful_labels", "wrong_transform",
        "transform_win_error", "transform_win_g_error", "transform_win_bg_error",
        "transform_lose_error", "transform_lose_g_error", "transform_lose_bg_error",
        "cubeless_identity_error", "rank1_not_best", "difference_identity_error",
    )
    perspective_proof = dict(zip(perspective_keys, perspective))
    if any(perspective_proof[key] for key in ("non_cubeful_labels", "wrong_transform", "rank1_not_best")):
        raise RuntimeError("native Cubeful perspective gates failed")
    control = Path("/users/a2andrad/scratch/sage-gnu-postmatch-k001/control-tower-current")
    engine = Path("/users/a2andrad/scratch/sage-gnu-postmatch-k001/engine-kit-current")
    cube_task = control / "tasks/compare-cube-evaluation-and-rollout-v1.md"
    run_task = control / "tasks/run-selected-cube-sage-rollout-v1.md"
    sage_cube = engine / "evidence/sage/1.2.20260706/cube-1ply/normalized-result.json"
    gnu_cube = engine / "evidence/gnu/1.08.003/cube-1ply/normalized-result.json"
    authority_search = {
        "status": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
        "searched_repositories": [
            {"repository": str(task_management_root.resolve()), "commit": _git_head(task_management_root)},
            {"repository": str(repository_root.resolve()), "commit": _git_head(repository_root)},
            {"repository": str(control.resolve()), "commit": _git_head(control)},
            {"repository": str(engine.resolve()), "commit": _git_head(engine)},
        ],
        "located_evidence": [
            {"path": str(cube_task), "sha256": sha256_file(cube_task), "state": "backlog"},
            {"path": str(run_task), "sha256": sha256_file(run_task), "state": "backlog"},
            {"path": str(sage_cube), "sha256": sha256_file(sage_cube), "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation"},
            {"path": str(gnu_cube), "sha256": sha256_file(gnu_cube), "semantics": "single engine-emitted cube decision; not a general probability-to-cubeful calculation"},
        ],
        "blocker": "No accepted artifact supplies an unambiguous versioned function mapping arbitrary predicted position probabilities plus cube/match context to cubeful equity; the located rollout comparison authority is unfinished. Replacing it would invent cube science.",
    }
    payload = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
        "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_MODEL_OUTCOMES",
        "implementation_starting_head": "f0cb5fb210c6defa3136ac3ac54bec20577f4986",
        "task_management_starting_head": "628776e2bb29b981383d6557ed312195d12544b3",
        "source_authority": split["source_authority"],
        "split_authority": {
            "path": str(split_manifest.resolve()),
            "sha256": sha256_file(split_manifest),
            "identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
            "fixed_holdout": split["selection"]["holdout"],
            "checkpoints": split["selection"]["checkpoints"],
            "position_exclusion": {key: value for key, value in split["exact_position_exclusion"].items() if key != "excluded_decision_ids"},
            "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": split["exact_position_exclusion"]["excluded_decision_membership_sha256"],
            "holdout_training_game_overlap_count": split["selection"]["holdout_training_game_overlap_count"],
            "source_game_split_overlap_count": split["selection"]["source_game_split_overlap_count"],
        },
        "frozen_4ply_authority": split["frozen_evaluation"],
        "feature_registries": {
            name: {"count": EXPECTED_COUNTS[name], "identity": feature_set_identity(name), "sha256": registry_sha256(name)}
            for name in REGISTRIES
        },
        "direct_cubeful_perspective_proof": {
            "status": "PASS",
            "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is emitted for the checker-move player; rank 1 maximizes it.",
            "modeling_transform": "static post-move next player is the checker-move opponent; zero-sum equity target is -native_equity.",
            "context_transform": "scores and cube ownership are swapped from source checker-move player to result next player; centered remains centered.",
            "data_proof": perspective_proof,
            "contract": "docs/contracts/canonical-analysis-parquet-v1.md",
            "contract_sha256": sha256_file(repository_root / "docs/contracts/canonical-analysis-parquet-v1.md"),
        },
        "calculated_cubeful_authority": authority_search,
        "model_comparison_portability": {
            "ElasticNet": {
                "status": "NOT_PORTABLE_TO_POSITION_VALUE_OBJECTIVE",
                "reason": "The frozen authority selects PairwiseElasticNet on within-decision feature differences, decision-normalized pair weights, pair_id inner folds, and ranking metrics; changing all four to absolute position targets would materially change its selection semantics.",
            },
            "quantile_hinge_GAM_class": {
                "status": "NOT_PORTABLE_TO_POSITION_VALUE_OBJECTIVE",
                "reason": "The frozen authority chooses knots/configuration on standardized pairwise-difference examples and ranking metrics; it contains no accepted absolute-position selection rule, so a new one is not invented.",
            },
        },
        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu_computations": 0, "new_source_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0, "new_sage_vs_gnu_data": 0},
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(payload)
    _write_json(output_path, payload)
    return payload


def _sha256_json(value: Any) -> str:
    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()


def _deterministic_metric_view(value: Any) -> Any:
    """Normalize insignificant reduction-order noise for rerun identities."""
    if isinstance(value, float):
        return round(value, 12)
    if isinstance(value, dict):
        return {key: _deterministic_metric_view(item) for key, item in value.items()}
    if isinstance(value, list):
        return [_deterministic_metric_view(item) for item in value]
    return value


def _write_json(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")


def _git_head(path: Path) -> str:
    return subprocess.run(
        ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=path, check=True, text=True,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    ).stdout.strip()


def _empty_stats(width: int = len(CUBEFUL_REGISTRY), targets: int = len(TARGETS)) -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {
        "n": 0,
        "x_sum": np.zeros(width),
        "x_sq_sum": np.zeros(width),
        "xtx": np.zeros((width, width)),
        "y_sum": np.zeros(targets),
        "y_sq_sum": np.zeros(targets),
        "xty": np.zeros((width, targets)),
        "identity": {
            "max_probability_identity_error": 0.0,
            "max_cubeless_identity_error": 0.0,
            "wrong_perspective_transform_rows": 0,
            "non_reconstructed_rows": 0,
        },
    }


def _merge_stats(destination: dict[str, Any], source: Mapping[str, Any]) -> None:
    destination["n"] += int(source["n"])
    for key in ("x_sum", "x_sq_sum", "xtx", "y_sum", "y_sq_sum", "xty"):
        destination[key] += source[key]
    for key in destination["identity"]:
        if key.startswith("max_"):
            destination["identity"][key] = max(destination["identity"][key], source["identity"][key])
        else:
            destination["identity"][key] += int(source["identity"][key])
            destination["identity"][key] += int(source["identity"][key])


def _update_stats(state: dict[str, Any], x: np.ndarray, y: np.ndarray, *,
                  lose: np.ndarray, transform: Sequence[str], reconstructed: Sequence[str]) -> None:
    if not len(x):
        return
    state["n"] += len(x)
    state["x_sum"] += x.sum(axis=0)
    state["x_sq_sum"] += (x * x).sum(axis=0)
    state["xtx"] += x.T @ x
    state["y_sum"] += y.sum(axis=0)
    state["y_sq_sum"] += (y * y).sum(axis=0)
    state["xty"] += x.T @ y
    identity = state["identity"]
    identity["max_probability_identity_error"] = max(
        identity["max_probability_identity_error"], float(np.max(np.abs(lose - (1.0 - y[:, 0]))))
    )
    derived = y[:, :5] @ PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS - 1.0
    identity["max_cubeless_identity_error"] = max(
        identity["max_cubeless_identity_error"], float(np.max(np.abs(derived - y[:, 5])))
    )
    identity["wrong_perspective_transform_rows"] += sum(
        value != "gnu-candidate-to-static-on-roll-v1" for value in transform
    )
    identity["non_reconstructed_rows"] += sum(value != "reconstructed" for value in reconstructed)


def _membership(manifest: Mapping[str, Any]) -> tuple[
    dict[tuple[str, str], dict[str, int]], dict[tuple[str, str], set[str]], set[str]
]:
    selection = manifest["selection"]
    boundaries = [int(selection["checkpoints"][label]["game_prefix_length"]) for label in CHECKPOINTS]
    train: dict[tuple[str, str], dict[str, int]] = {}
    for index, item in enumerate(selection["train_game_order"]):
        campaign, host, worker, game_key = str(item["game_id"]).split("\0", 3)
        bucket = bisect.bisect_right(boundaries, index)
        if bucket >= len(CHECKPOINTS):
            raise RuntimeError("training game lies beyond full checkpoint")
        train.setdefault((host, worker), {})[game_key] = bucket
    holdout: dict[tuple[str, str], set[str]] = {}
    limit = int(selection["holdout"]["game_prefix_length"])
    for item in selection["test_game_order"][:limit]:
        campaign, host, worker, game_key = str(item["game_id"]).split("\0", 3)
        holdout.setdefault((host, worker), set()).add(game_key)
    excluded = set(manifest["exact_position_exclusion"]["excluded_decision_ids"])
    return train, holdout, excluded


def _candidate_files(shallow_root: Path) -> list[Path]:
    files = sorted(shallow_root.glob("worker_partitions/*/*/candidates.parquet"))
    if len(files) != 82:
        raise RuntimeError(f"retained shallow authority has {len(files)} partitions, expected 82")
    return files


def _partition_key(path: Path) -> tuple[str, str]:
    return path.parents[1].name, path.parent.name


def _targets_from_columns(data: Mapping[str, Sequence[Any]], indexes: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    values = np.column_stack((
        np.asarray(data["static_win"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        np.asarray(data["static_win_gammon_or_better"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        np.asarray(data["static_win_backgammon"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        np.asarray(data["static_lose_gammon_or_worse"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        np.asarray(data["static_lose_backgammon"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        np.asarray(data["cubeless_money_equity"], dtype=float)[indexes],
        -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[indexes],
    ))
    if not np.isfinite(values).all():
        raise RuntimeError("non-finite target in retained shallow authority")
    return values


def _process_training_partition(args: tuple[str, dict[str, int], set[str], int]) -> dict[str, Any]:
    path_text, game_buckets, excluded, batch_size = args
    states = [_empty_stats() for _ in CHECKPOINTS]
    parquet = pq.ParquetFile(path_text)
    for batch in parquet.iter_batches(batch_size=batch_size, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
        data = batch.to_pydict()
        buckets = np.fromiter((game_buckets.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
        allowed = (buckets >= 0) & np.fromiter(
            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool
        )
        indexes = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
        if not len(indexes):
            continue
        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in indexes]
        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in indexes]
        pure = position_feature_matrix(positions)
        context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
        x = np.column_stack((pure, context))
        y = _targets_from_columns(data, indexes)
        selected_buckets = buckets[indexes]
        lose_all = np.asarray(data["static_lose"], dtype=float)[indexes]
        transform_all = [str(data["perspective_transform_version"][index]) for index in indexes]
        reconstructed_all = [str(data["reconstruction_status"][index]) for index in indexes]
        for bucket in np.unique(selected_buckets):
            mask = selected_buckets == bucket
            chosen = np.flatnonzero(mask)
            _update_stats(
                states[int(bucket)], x[chosen], y[chosen], lose=lose_all[chosen],
                transform=[transform_all[index] for index in chosen],
                reconstructed=[reconstructed_all[index] for index in chosen],
            )
    return {"path": path_text, "states": states}


def _stats_identity(state: Mapping[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {
        "rows": int(state["n"]),
        "x_sum_sha256": _sha256_json(state["x_sum"].tolist()),
        "x_sq_sum_sha256": _sha256_json(state["x_sq_sum"].tolist()),
        "xtx_sha256": _sha256_json(state["xtx"].tolist()),
        "y_sum_sha256": _sha256_json(state["y_sum"].tolist()),
        "y_sq_sum_sha256": _sha256_json(state["y_sq_sum"].tolist()),
        "xty_sha256": _sha256_json(state["xty"].tolist()),
        "target_identities": dict(state["identity"]),
    }


def accumulate_training_statistics(
    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, output_npz: Path,
    output_manifest: Path, workers: int = 10, batch_size: int = 8192,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    started = time.time()
    manifest = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    train, _, excluded = _membership(manifest)
    files = _candidate_files(shallow_root)
    args = [
        (str(path), train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded, batch_size)
        for path in files
    ]
    buckets = [_empty_stats() for _ in CHECKPOINTS]
    partitions = []
    if workers == 1:
        results: Iterable[dict[str, Any]] = map(_process_training_partition, args)
    else:
        executor = ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=workers)
        results = executor.map(_process_training_partition, args)
    try:
        for result in results:
            partitions.append(result["path"])
            for index, state in enumerate(result["states"]):
                _merge_stats(buckets[index], state)
    finally:
        if workers != 1:
            executor.shutdown()
    output_npz.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    arrays: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}
    for index, state in enumerate(buckets):
        for key in ("x_sum", "x_sq_sum", "xtx", "y_sum", "y_sq_sum", "xty"):
            arrays[f"bucket_{index}_{key}"] = state[key]
        arrays[f"bucket_{index}_n"] = np.asarray([state["n"]], dtype=np.int64)
    np.savez_compressed(output_npz, **arrays)
    cumulative = _empty_stats()
    checkpoint_rows = {}
    identities = {}
    for index, label in enumerate(CHECKPOINTS):
        _merge_stats(cumulative, buckets[index])
        checkpoint_rows[label] = int(cumulative["n"])
        identities[label] = _stats_identity(cumulative)
    result = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-training-statistics-v1",
        "status": "PASS",
        "source_split_manifest": str(split_manifest.resolve()),
        "source_split_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(split_manifest),
        "source_split_manifest_identity_sha256": manifest["manifest_identity_sha256"],
        "partition_count": len(partitions),
        "partition_order_sha256": _sha256_json(partitions),
        "batch_size": batch_size,
        "workers": workers,
        "feature_width": len(CUBEFUL_REGISTRY),
        "target_order": list(TARGETS),
        "checkpoint_candidate_rows": checkpoint_rows,
        "checkpoint_statistics": identities,
        "statistics_npz": str(output_npz.resolve()),
        "statistics_npz_sha256": sha256_file(output_npz),
        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu_computations": 0, "new_source_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
    }
    result["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(result)
    _write_json(output_manifest, result)
    return result


def load_statistics(path: Path) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
    source = np.load(path)
    buckets = []
    for index in range(len(CHECKPOINTS)):
        state = _empty_stats()
        state["n"] = int(source[f"bucket_{index}_n"][0])
        for key in ("x_sum", "x_sq_sum", "xtx", "y_sum", "y_sq_sum", "xty"):
            state[key] = source[f"bucket_{index}_{key}"]
        buckets.append(state)
    return buckets


def cumulative_statistics(buckets: Sequence[Mapping[str, Any]]) -> dict[str, dict[str, Any]]:
    result = {}
    running = _empty_stats()
    for label, bucket in zip(CHECKPOINTS, buckets):
        _merge_stats(running, bucket)
        snapshot = _empty_stats()
        _merge_stats(snapshot, running)
        result[label] = snapshot
    return result


@dataclass
class RidgeHeads:
    feature_set: str
    checkpoint: str
    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
    targets: tuple[str, ...]
    mean: np.ndarray
    scale: np.ndarray
    standardized_coefficients: np.ndarray
    raw_coefficients: np.ndarray
    intercept: np.ndarray
    alpha: float = ALPHA

    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        return x[:, :len(self.feature_ids)] @ self.raw_coefficients.T + self.intercept

    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        payload = {
            "feature_set": self.feature_set,
            "checkpoint": self.checkpoint,
            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
            "targets": list(self.targets),
            "alpha": self.alpha,
            "fit_intercept": True,
            "standardization": "population variance over training candidate rows; zero scales replaced by one",
            "mean": self.mean.tolist(),
            "scale": self.scale.tolist(),
            "standardized_coefficients": self.standardized_coefficients.tolist(),
            "raw_coefficients": self.raw_coefficients.tolist(),
            "intercept": self.intercept.tolist(),
        }
        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(payload)
        return payload


def fit_ridge_heads(
    state: Mapping[str, Any], *, feature_set: str, checkpoint: str,
    width: int, target_indexes: Sequence[int], feature_ids: Sequence[str], alpha: float = ALPHA,
) -> RidgeHeads:
    n = int(state["n"])
    x_sum = np.asarray(state["x_sum"][:width])
    x_sq = np.asarray(state["x_sq_sum"][:width])
    xtx = np.asarray(state["xtx"][:width, :width])
    indexes = np.asarray(target_indexes, dtype=int)
    y_sum = np.asarray(state["y_sum"])[indexes]
    xty = np.asarray(state["xty"][:width])[:, indexes]
    mean = x_sum / n
    variance = np.maximum(0.0, x_sq / n - mean * mean)
    scale = np.sqrt(variance)
    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
    centered_xtx = xtx - np.outer(x_sum, x_sum) / n
    ztz = centered_xtx / np.outer(scale, scale)
    centered_xty = xty - np.outer(x_sum, y_sum) / n
    zty = centered_xty / scale[:, None]
    coefficients = np.linalg.solve(ztz + alpha * np.eye(width), zty).T
    raw = coefficients / scale
    intercept = y_sum / n - raw @ mean
    return RidgeHeads(
        feature_set=feature_set, checkpoint=checkpoint,
        feature_ids=tuple(feature_ids), targets=tuple(TARGETS[index] for index in indexes),
        mean=mean, scale=scale, standardized_coefficients=coefficients,
        raw_coefficients=raw, intercept=intercept, alpha=alpha,
    )


def fit_learning_curve_models(statistics_npz: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    cumulative = cumulative_statistics(load_statistics(statistics_npz))
    models: list[RidgeHeads] = []
    for checkpoint in CHECKPOINTS:
        models.append(fit_ridge_heads(
            cumulative[checkpoint], feature_set="P3", checkpoint=checkpoint,
            width=EXPECTED_COUNTS["P3"], target_indexes=range(6),
            feature_ids=[item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES["P3"]],
        ))
    for checkpoint in ("250000", "full"):
        for feature_set in ("P0", "P1", "P2"):
            models.append(fit_ridge_heads(
                cumulative[checkpoint], feature_set=feature_set, checkpoint=checkpoint,
                width=EXPECTED_COUNTS[feature_set], target_indexes=range(6),
                feature_ids=[item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES[feature_set]],
            ))
    models.append(fit_ridge_heads(
        cumulative["full"], feature_set="P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT", checkpoint="full",
        width=len(CUBEFUL_REGISTRY), target_indexes=(6,),
        feature_ids=[item.feature_id for item in CUBEFUL_REGISTRY],
    ))
    payload = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-ridge-models-v1",
        "status": "PASS",
        "statistics_npz_sha256": sha256_file(statistics_npz),
                continue
            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in indexes]
            x = position_feature_matrix(positions)
            truth = _targets_from_columns(data, indexes)
            classes = position_classes(positions)
            for model in models:
                metrics[_model_key(model)].add(model.predict(x), truth, classes)
            observed_rows += len(indexes)
            observed_decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in indexes)
    expected = manifest["selection"]["holdout"]
    if observed_rows != int(expected["candidates"]) or len(observed_decisions) != int(expected["decisions"]):
        raise RuntimeError(f"fixed holdout differs: {observed_rows}/{len(observed_decisions)}")
    result = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-shallow-holdout-v1",
        "status": "PASS", "holdout_candidates": observed_rows,
        "holdout_decisions": len(observed_decisions),
        "split_manifest_identity_sha256": manifest["manifest_identity_sha256"],
        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["identity_sha256"],
        "metrics": {key: value.result() for key, value in metrics.items()},
        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    result["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(result)
    _write_json(output_path, result)
    return result


def score_direct_cubeful_holdout(
    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, models_path: Path,
    output_path: Path, batch_size: int = 16384,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    manifest = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    _, holdout, _ = _membership(manifest)
    matches = [model for model in load_models(models_path) if model.targets == (TARGETS[6],)]
    if len(matches) != 1:
        raise RuntimeError("expected exactly one direct Cubeful model")
    model = matches[0]
    metric = RegressionMetrics()
    strata: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
    context_identity = hashlib.sha256()
    rows = 0
    decisions: set[str] = set()
    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
        if not games:
            continue
        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=batch_size, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
            data = batch.to_pydict()
            indexes = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
            if not len(indexes):
                continue
            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in indexes]
            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in indexes]
            context_identity.update("\n".join(match_ids).encode())
            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)))
            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[indexes]
            prediction = model.predict(x)[:, 0]
            metric.add(prediction, truth)
            classes = position_classes(positions)
            for label in np.unique(classes):
                mask = classes == label
                strata.setdefault(str(label), RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[mask], truth[mask])
            rows += len(indexes)
            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in indexes)
    expected = manifest["selection"]["holdout"]
    if rows != int(expected["candidates"]) or len(decisions) != int(expected["decisions"]):
        raise RuntimeError("direct Cubeful holdout population differs")
    result = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-direct-cubeful-v1",
        "status": "PASS", "target": TARGETS[6], "perspective_transform": "-native_equity",
        "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions), "metrics": metric.result(),
        "position_class_strata": {key: value.result() for key, value in sorted(strata.items())},
        "context_stream_sha256": context_identity.hexdigest(),
        "model_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["models"][-1]["model_identity_sha256"],
    }
    result["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(result)
    _write_json(output_path, result)
    return result


def load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package: Path) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
    root = str(canonical_package).replace("'", "''")
    con = duckdb.connect()
    rows = con.execute(f"""
        SELECT c.candidate_id,c.decision_id,c.is_played,d.game_group_id,d.pair_id,
               d.source_match_id,so.gnu_match_id_native,p.gnu_position_id,
               e.win,e.win_gammon_or_better,e.win_backgammon,
               e.lose_gammon_or_worse,e.lose_backgammon,
               e.cubeless_money_equity_derived,e.native_equity,e.native_equity_lexical,
               e.perspective_transform_version,e.normalized_perspective,e.actual_ply
        FROM read_parquet('{root}/candidates.parquet') c
        JOIN read_parquet('{root}/decisions.parquet') d USING(decision_id)
        JOIN read_parquet('{root}/source_occurrences.parquet') so USING(source_occurrence_id)
        JOIN read_parquet('{root}/evaluations.parquet') e
          ON e.candidate_id=c.candidate_id AND e.source_occurrence_id=d.source_occurrence_id
        JOIN read_parquet('{root}/positions.parquet') p ON p.position_id=c.result_position_id
        WHERE so.dataset_id='retained-stage1-analysis'
          AND d.historical_pipeline_selected=true AND e.actual_ply=4
          AND c.reconstruction_status='reconstructed' AND c.result_position_id IS NOT NULL
        ORDER BY c.decision_id,c.candidate_id
    """).fetch_arrow_table().to_pylist()
    con.close()
    if len(rows) != 6963 or len({str(row["decision_id"]) for row in rows}) != 2136:
        raise RuntimeError("frozen actual-4ply population differs")
    if any(row["perspective_transform_version"] != "gnu-candidate-to-static-on-roll-v1" for row in rows):
        raise RuntimeError("frozen actual-4ply perspective differs")
    return rows


def _deep_target_matrix(rows: Sequence[Mapping[str, Any]]) -> np.ndarray:
    return np.asarray([
        [row[name] for name in (

def score_frozen_deep_transfer(
    *, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
    x = position_feature_matrix(positions)
    truth = _deep_target_matrix(rows)
    classes = position_classes(positions)
    models = load_models(models_path)
    pure_models = [model for model in models if len(model.targets) == 6]
    results = {}
    predictions: dict[str, dict[str, np.ndarray]] = {}
    for model in pure_models:
        prediction = model.predict(x)
        accumulator = PositionModelMetrics(); accumulator.add(prediction, truth, classes)
        direct = prediction[:, 5]
        derived = prediction[:, :5] @ PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS - 1.0
        results[_model_key(model)] = accumulator.result()
        predictions[_model_key(model)] = {"direct": direct, "derived": derived}
        results[_model_key(model)]["downstream_choice"] = {
            "direct": _choice_metrics(rows, direct, _model_key(model) + "/direct"),
            "probability_derived": _choice_metrics(rows, derived, _model_key(model) + "/derived"),
        }
    cubeful_models = [model for model in models if model.targets == (TARGETS[6],)]
    if len(cubeful_models) != 1:
        raise RuntimeError("direct Cubeful model missing")
    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
    cubeful_prediction = cubeful_models[0].predict(np.column_stack((x, context)))[:, 0]
    cubeful_truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
    cubeful = RegressionMetrics(); cubeful.add(cubeful_prediction, cubeful_truth)
    payload = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-frozen-4ply-transfer-v1",
        "status": "PASS", "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
        "population_identity_sha256": _sha256_json([[row["decision_id"], row["candidate_id"], row["gnu_position_id"]] for row in rows]),
        "models": results,
        "direct_cubeful_supplementary": {"target_transform": "-native_equity", "metrics": cubeful.result()},
        "literal_0ply_inference_fields": [],
    }
    payload["deterministic_metric_identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(_deterministic_metric_view(payload))
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(payload)
    _write_json(output_path, payload)
    return payload


def build_contribution_evidence(
    *, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Retain and audit exact feature contributions for every fitted linear model."""

    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
    x = position_feature_matrix(positions)
    feature_ids = [item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES["P3"]]
    made_index = feature_ids.index("opponent_point_05_made")
    prime_index = feature_ids.index("player_longest_prime")
    by_decision: dict[str, list[int]] = {}
    for index, row in enumerate(rows):
        by_decision.setdefault(str(row["decision_id"]), []).append(index)
    selected: tuple[int, int] | None = None
    for indexes in by_decision.values():
        for offset, left in enumerate(indexes):
            for right in indexes[offset + 1:]:
                if x[left, made_index] != x[right, made_index] and x[left, prime_index] == x[right, prime_index]:
                    selected = left, right
                    break
            if selected:
                break
        if selected:
            break
    if selected is None:
        raise RuntimeError("no deterministic explanation contrast found")
    left, right = selected
    models = load_models(models_path)
    audits: dict[str, Any] = {}
    maximum_position_error = maximum_delta_error = maximum_derived_error = 0.0
    for model in models:
        width = len(model.feature_ids)
        if len(model.targets) == 1:
            context = cubeful_context_matrix([
                str(rows[left]["gnu_match_id_native"]), str(rows[right]["gnu_match_id_native"]),
            ])
            pair_x = np.column_stack((x[[left, right]], context))[:, :width]
        else:
            pair_x = x[[left, right], :width]
        contributions = pair_x[:, None, :] * model.raw_coefficients[None, :, :]
        prediction = model.predict(pair_x)
        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=2) + model.intercept
        position_error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
        delta = contributions[0] - contributions[1]
        delta_error = float(np.max(np.abs((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - delta.sum(axis=1))))
        maximum_position_error = max(maximum_position_error, position_error)
        maximum_delta_error = max(maximum_delta_error, delta_error)
        feature_contributions = [
            {
                "feature_id": feature_id,
                "position_a_value": float(pair_x[0, index]),
                "position_b_value": float(pair_x[1, index]),
                "position_a_contributions": contributions[0, :, index].tolist(),
                "position_b_contributions": contributions[1, :, index].tolist(),
                "move_delta_contributions": delta[:, index].tolist(),
            }
            for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.feature_ids)
        ]
        audit: dict[str, Any] = {
            "targets": list(model.targets),
            "definition": "position contribution = raw feature value * raw coefficient; move explanation A-B = contribution(A)-contribution(B); intercept cancels",
            "position_reconstruction_max_abs_error": position_error,
            "move_delta_reconstruction_max_abs_error": delta_error,
            "feature_contributions": feature_contributions,
        }
        if len(model.targets) == 6:
            derived_coefficients = PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS @ model.raw_coefficients[:5]
            derived_intercept = float(PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS @ model.intercept[:5] - 1.0)
            derived_from_features = pair_x @ derived_coefficients + derived_intercept
            derived_from_heads = prediction[:, :5] @ PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS - 1.0
            derived_error = float(np.max(np.abs(derived_from_features - derived_from_heads)))
            maximum_derived_error = max(maximum_derived_error, derived_error)
            audit["probability_derived_cubeless"] = {
                "weights": PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS.tolist(), "constant": -1.0,
                "raw_coefficients": derived_coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": derived_intercept,
                "exact_reconstruction_max_abs_error": derived_error,
                "direct_head_coefficient_max_abs_difference": float(np.max(np.abs(model.raw_coefficients[5] - derived_coefficients))),
                "direct_head_intercept_abs_difference": abs(float(model.intercept[5] - derived_intercept)),
            }
            if "opponent_point_05_made" in model.feature_ids:
                idx = model.feature_ids.index("opponent_point_05_made")
                audit["made_5_point_example"] = {
                    "feature_id": model.feature_ids[idx],
                    "a_value": float(pair_x[0, idx]), "b_value": float(pair_x[1, idx]),
                    "derived_cubeless_delta_contribution": float((pair_x[0, idx] - pair_x[1, idx]) * derived_coefficients[idx]),
                }
            if "player_longest_prime" in model.feature_ids:
                idx = model.feature_ids.index("player_longest_prime")
                audit["shared_prime_cancellation_example"] = {
                    "feature_id": model.feature_ids[idx],
                    "a_value": float(pair_x[0, idx]), "b_value": float(pair_x[1, idx]),
                    "all_target_delta_contributions": delta[:, idx].tolist(),
                }
        audits[_model_key(model)] = audit
    if max(maximum_position_error, maximum_delta_error, maximum_derived_error) > 1e-10:
        raise RuntimeError("contribution reconstruction failed")
    payload = {
        "version": EXPERIMENT_VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
        "contrast": {
            "decision_id": str(rows[left]["decision_id"]),
            "position_a": {key: rows[left][key] for key in ("candidate_id", "gnu_position_id")},
            "position_b": {key: rows[right][key] for key in ("candidate_id", "gnu_position_id")},
            "perspective_note": "The checker-move player is opponent in normalized next-player-on-roll coordinates; opponent_point_05_made is therefore the move-result 5-point feature.",
        },
        "all_model_audits": audits,
        "global_maximum_errors": {
            "position_reconstruction": maximum_position_error,
            "move_delta_reconstruction": maximum_delta_error,
            "probability_derived_cubeless_reconstruction": maximum_derived_error,
        },
        "calculated_cubeful_explanation": "NOT_FABRICATED: CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED; no cube-valuation adjustment decomposition exists.",
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha256_json(payload)
    _write_json(output_path, payload)
    return payload


def _compact_position_metrics(value: Mapping[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {
        "mean_probability_rmse": value["mean_probability_rmse"],
        "probability_rmse": {name: value["probability_heads"][name]["rmse"] for name in TARGETS[:5]},
        "direct_cubeless_rmse": value["direct_cubeless"]["rmse"],
        "probability_derived_cubeless_rmse": value["probability_derived_cubeless"]["rmse"],
        "direct_vs_derived_rmse": value["direct_vs_probability_derived"]["rmse"],
    }


def build_result_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Assemble the compact, immutable experiment result from detailed evidence."""

    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
    registries = json.loads((evidence_root / "registries.json").read_text())
    statistics = json.loads((evidence_root / "training-statistics.json").read_text())
    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
    holdout = json.loads((evidence_root / "shallow-holdout.json").read_text())
    deep = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-4ply-transfer.json").read_text())
    cubeful = json.loads((evidence_root / "direct-cubeful.json").read_text())
    contributions = json.loads((evidence_root / "contribution-evidence.json").read_text())
    data_curve = {
        checkpoint: _compact_position_metrics(holdout["metrics"][f"P3/{checkpoint}"])
        for checkpoint in CHECKPOINTS
    }
    feature_curve = {
        checkpoint: {
            feature_set: _compact_position_metrics(holdout["metrics"][f"{feature_set}/{checkpoint}"])
            for feature_set in ("P0", "P1", "P2", "P3")
        }
        for checkpoint in ("250000", "full")
    }
    transfer = {}
    for key, value in deep["models"].items():
        compact = _compact_position_metrics(value)
        compact["downstream_choice"] = value["downstream_choice"]
        transfer[key] = compact
    best_probability = min(holdout["metrics"], key=lambda key: holdout["metrics"][key]["mean_probability_rmse"])
from __future__ import annotations

import numpy as np

from backgammon_explainer.feature_registry import state_measures
from backgammon_explainer.feature_v2_250 import geometry_measures
from backgammon_explainer.feature_v2_500 import profile_measures
from backgammon_explainer.gnu_ids import decode_position_id
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import (
    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
    EXPECTED_COUNTS,
    REGISTRIES,
    cubeful_context_matrix,
    decode_position_ids,
    position_feature_matrix,
)


POSITIONS = (
    "4HPwATDgc/ABMA",
    "sGfwATDgc/ABMA",
    "bD3BAQyYd2cEAA",
)


def test_exact_registry_counts_and_pure_boundary() -> None:
    assert {name: len(value) for name, value in REGISTRIES.items()} == EXPECTED_COUNTS
    forbidden = ("original_", "delta_", "action_", "decision_", "context_", "target", "equity", "rank")
    for registry in REGISTRIES.values():
        assert len({item.feature_id for item in registry}) == len(registry)
        assert not any(any(token in item.feature_id for token in forbidden) for item in registry)


def test_vector_decoder_matches_authority() -> None:
    player, opponent = decode_position_ids(POSITIONS)
    for index, position_id in enumerate(POSITIONS):
        board = decode_position_id(position_id)
        assert player[index].tolist() == list(board.player)
        assert opponent[index].tolist() == list(board.opponent)


def test_vector_features_match_accepted_static_authorities() -> None:
    matrix = position_feature_matrix(POSITIONS)
    ids = [item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES["P3"]]
    assert matrix.shape == (len(POSITIONS), 351)
    for row_index, position_id in enumerate(POSITIONS):
        board = decode_position_id(position_id)
        expected = {**state_measures(board), **geometry_measures(board), **profile_measures(board)}
        for feature_id, value in expected.items():
            if feature_id in ids:
                assert np.isclose(matrix[row_index, ids.index(feature_id)], value, atol=1e-12)


def test_cubeful_context_projects_to_next_player() -> None:
    from backgammon_explainer.gnu_ids import decode_match_id

    match_ids = ("cAngAAAAAAAE", "QQkHAPBHsCAA")
    matrix = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
    ids = [item.feature_id for item in CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY]
    assert matrix.shape == (2, 15)
    for index, match_id in enumerate(match_ids):
        source = decode_match_id(match_id)
        modeled_index = 1 - source.move_index
        expected_player_score = source.scores[modeled_index] if source.match_length else 0
        assert matrix[index, ids.index("cubeful_player_score")] == expected_player_score
        source_owner = source.cube_owner_relative
        expected_code = {"centered": 0, "player": -1, "opponent": 1}[source_owner]
        assert matrix[index, ids.index("cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code")] == expected_code


def test_streaming_sufficient_statistics_ridge_equivalence() -> None:
    from sklearn.linear_model import Ridge
    from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

    from backgammon_explainer.position_value_experiment import (
        _empty_stats,
        _update_stats,
        fit_ridge_heads,
    )

    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
    x = rng.normal(size=(257, 52))
    y = rng.normal(size=(257, 6))
    state = _empty_stats()
    for start in range(0, len(x), 31):
        stop = min(start + 31, len(x))
        _update_stats(
            state, np.column_stack((x[start:stop], np.zeros((stop - start, 314)))),
            np.column_stack((y[start:stop], np.zeros(stop - start))),
            lose=1.0 - y[start:stop, 0],
            transform=["gnu-candidate-to-static-on-roll-v1"] * (stop - start),
            reconstructed=["reconstructed"] * (stop - start),
        )
    streamed = fit_ridge_heads(
        state, feature_set="P0", checkpoint="test", width=52,
        target_indexes=range(6), feature_ids=[f"x{index}" for index in range(52)],
    )
    scaler = StandardScaler().fit(x)
    reference = Ridge(alpha=10.0, fit_intercept=True).fit(scaler.transform(x), y)
    expected_raw = reference.coef_ / scaler.scale_
    expected_intercept = reference.intercept_ - expected_raw @ scaler.mean_
    assert np.allclose(streamed.raw_coefficients, expected_raw, atol=1e-10)
    assert np.allclose(streamed.intercept, expected_intercept, atol=1e-10)
    assert np.allclose(streamed.predict(x), reference.predict(scaler.transform(x)), atol=1e-10)

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# Explainer K002 constrained/additive position model v1

## Result

The frozen constrained/additive experiment passes both interpretation gates without changing production:

- `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_PRESENT`
- `ADDITIVE_EQUITY_SIGNAL_PRESENT`
- Ridge underfitting: `YES`
- production: `UNCHANGED`
- calculated cubeful: `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`

Training-only selection chose HLIN lambda `1e-5`, HADD lambda `1e-5`, and ADDEQ alpha `100`. Selection used four complete-game-group folds at the 250k checkpoint and accessed neither the fixed shallow holdout nor actual-4ply rows.

## Frozen candidates and cells

The only candidates were HLIN (`explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-linear-logit-v1`), HADD (`explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-additive-logit-v1`), and ADDEQ (`explainer-position-value-p3-additive-cubeless-ridge-v1`). The result contains exactly the eight commissioned P1/P3 × 250k/1M cells. HADD and ADDEQ use one standardized linear term and standardized hinges at train-only quantiles `[0.25, 0.50, 0.75]`, with no interactions.

HLIN/HADD fit the five frozen conditional soft-binomial heads and reconstruct cumulative probabilities through the frozen hierarchy. Across every retained shallow and actual-4ply constrained cell, out-of-range predictions, cumulative ordering violations, and redundant-lose inconsistencies are all exactly zero.

## Primary P3/1M shallow results

The fixed shallow holdout remains 2,094,039 candidates / 100,015 decisions.

| Candidate | Mean probability RMSE | Win | Win G+ | Win BG | Lose G+ | Lose BG | Derived/direct cubeless RMSE |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Existing independent-head/direct Ridge | 0.061676 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.261063 |
| HLIN | 0.050396 | 0.093510 | 0.085413 | 0.022250 | 0.044926 | 0.005883 | 0.259867 |
| HADD | **0.045274** | 0.084816 | 0.071641 | 0.020463 | 0.042198 | 0.007250 | **0.239171** |
| ADDEQ | — | — | — | — | — | — | **0.242918** |

HLIN mean probability MAE is `0.030281` and mean conditional log loss is `0.396441`. HADD mean probability MAE is `0.026184` and mean conditional log loss is `0.394393`. ADDEQ direct cubeless MAE is `0.174991`, bias `0.000567`, R2 `0.861123`, and correlation `0.927971`.

The selected final ADDEQ fits received a uniform training-only numerical convergence repair before accepted outer scoring. The P3/1M retained training trace fell from online RMSE `0.295797` to `0.259870`; alpha, target, scaler, knots, features, and selection identity were unchanged. The earlier outer score was discarded and recomputed from scratch.

## Frozen actual-4ply transfer

The unchanged transfer population remains 6,963 candidates / 2,136 decisions. No model was retrained or retuned.

| Candidate | Mean probability RMSE | Derived/direct cubeless RMSE | Top-set accuracy | Exact-unique accuracy | Mean regret |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| HLIN P3/1M | 0.054217 | 0.275592 | 0.590824 | 0.546587 | 0.011493 |
| HADD P3/1M | **0.045687** | **0.237388** | 0.576779 | 0.529794 | 0.012219 |
| ADDEQ P3/1M | — | 0.281832 | 0.573034 | 0.527627 | 0.012107 |

The move metrics are downstream diagnostics only. HADD's actual-4ply head RMSEs are win `0.098422`, win G+ `0.064328`, win BG `0.016286`, lose G+ `0.042786`, and lose BG `0.006613`. ADDEQ actual-4ply MAE is `0.211615`, bias `0.039959`, R2 `0.880644`, and correlation `0.940889`.

## Explanation and interpretation

HLIN/HADD retain exact per-feature contributions on each conditional-logit scale. The result reports A-minus-B feature contribution differences, resulting probability changes, and probability-derived cubeless change; it explicitly does not claim additive equity contributions after sigmoid/hierarchy.

ADDEQ retains exact per-feature cubeless-equity contributions. Global maximum absolute reconstruction errors are `2.22e-15` for positions, `1.37e-15` for A-minus-B logit/equity differences, and `1.25e-16` for ADDEQ equity differences, below the required `1e-12`.

Both HLIN and HADD pass the probability-constraint gate. ADDEQ lowers shallow P3/1M direct cubeless RMSE from `0.261063` to `0.242918` and actual-4ply RMSE from `0.317097` to `0.281832`, so the additive-equity gate passes. The prior Ridge-underfitting question is resolved `YES`; within the frozen facts and data, model capacity was a material bottleneck.

Recommended next task: freeze and test a compact deployment path for the successful additive/coherent form, including latency and artifact-size constraints, without production promotion in this result.

## Evidence

Immutable evidence is under `artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/`. `manifest.json`, `SHA256SUMS`, and `self-verification.json` bind and verify the package. The machine-readable result is `results/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-v1.json`.
# Explainer K002 constrained/additive position-model protocol

Recorded: 2026-08-23 EDT

Status: `CONSTRAINED_ADDITIVE_POSITION_MODEL_PROTOCOL_FROZEN_READY_FOR_CODEX`

## Purpose

The completed position-value experiment established that richer pure-position representation materially improves probability and cubeless RMSE, while additional shallow data largely saturates near one million training decisions. It did not establish whether Ridge is underfitting because the only portable absolute-position model was linear Ridge.

This follow-on is a bounded model-form test. It asks whether probability coherence and additive nonlinear position effects improve the P3 position-value model without changing labels, feature facts, evaluation populations, or production.

It is prospectively frozen before any new candidate outcome metrics are inspected.

## Starting authority

Implementation branch:

`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@feature/explainer-feature-v2-k002`

Starting implementation head:

`4e669ef589656bdeb1a59f00f72284f8c3867143`

Task Management starting head entering this protocol:

`75f31c7f4c3f138497127e15d82d48d390dbe6ba`

Completed position-value evidence:

- package identity: `0f4ced56c2c7898139f7f5e77877c801237a799fa183b6902c5060c40fb67d2c`
- P1: `explainer-position-value-p1-v1-0d79291de573d08c`, 244 features
- P3: `explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64`, 351 features
- fixed shallow holdout: 2,094,039 candidates / 100,015 decisions
- frozen actual-4ply transfer: 6,963 candidates / 2,136 decisions
- P3/full Ridge mean probability RMSE: `0.0616674993`
- P3/1M Ridge cubeless RMSE: `0.2610634401`
- P3/full frozen-4ply mean probability RMSE: `0.0800362657`
- P3/500k frozen-4ply cubeless RMSE: `0.3167564026`

Production/reference remains unchanged:

`explainer-feature-v2-250-v1 / pairwise Ridge D / alpha 10.0`.

## Boundaries

This task authorizes no new engine evidence.

- new GNU computations: `0`
- new source matches: `0`
- new labels: `0`
- new Sage-vs-GNU data: `0`
- no independent 4,011-decision deep augmentation in primary training
- no production promotion
- no HGB, random forest, neural network, EBM dependency, or other black-box family
- no new features beyond frozen P1/P3 facts and train-fold additive hinge transforms
- no T2 tactical-response features
- no match/cube context in probability or cubeless position models
- material shared-host compute must run nice `+10`

The calculated-cubeful authority blocker from the completed position-value task remains unchanged. This task does not invent new cube valuation science.

## Targets

Use the exact commissioned static next-player-on-roll probability semantics.

Five reported cumulative probabilities remain:

1. `win`
2. `win_gammon_or_better`
3. `win_backgammon`
4. `lose_gammon_or_worse`
5. `lose_backgammon`

The primary probability metric is the arithmetic mean of their five RMSEs. Each head RMSE, MAE, bias, calibration, and validity diagnostics must also be reported.

Cubeless truth remains `cubeless_money_equity_derived`.

## Probability hierarchy

The constrained candidates must not fit the five cumulative probabilities independently. They must model five conditional Bernoulli probabilities whose reconstruction is coherent by construction.

Let `L = 1 - P(win)`.

Heads:

1. `q_win = P(win)`
2. `q_wg = P(win_gammon_or_better | win)`
3. `q_wbg = P(win_backgammon | win_gammon_or_better)`
4. `q_lg = P(lose_gammon_or_worse | lose)`
5. `q_lbg = P(lose_backgammon | lose_gammon_or_worse)`

Reconstruction:

- `P(win) = q_win`
- `P(win_gammon_or_better) = q_win * q_wg`
- `P(win_backgammon) = q_win * q_wg * q_wbg`
- `P(lose_gammon_or_worse) = (1-q_win) * q_lg`
- `P(lose_backgammon) = (1-q_win) * q_lg * q_lbg`

Therefore all values lie in `[0,1]`, redundant lose is `1-P(win)`, and nesting is exact.

### Soft-binomial training loss

Do not form unstable conditional ratios. For each source row and head use success/failure probability masses directly.

- win head: success=`win`; failure=`1-win`
- win-gammon head: success=`win_gammon_or_better`; failure=`win-win_gammon_or_better`
- win-BG head: success=`win_backgammon`; failure=`win_gammon_or_better-win_backgammon`
- lose-gammon head: success=`lose_gammon_or_worse`; failure=`(1-win)-lose_gammon_or_worse`
- lose-BG head: success=`lose_backgammon`; failure=`lose_gammon_or_worse-lose_backgammon`

For a modeled conditional probability `p=sigmoid(eta)`, minimize weighted soft-binomial cross entropy:

`-[success*log(p) + failure*log(1-p)]`.

Rows with zero total conditioning mass for a conditional head contribute zero weight to that head.

## Candidate HLIN: hierarchical linear logits

Candidate ID:

`explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-linear-logit-v1`

- inputs: frozen standardized P3 only
- one linear logit per hierarchy head
- training-fold-only StandardScaler
- intercept enabled
- L2 regularization
- deterministic fitting
- exact coefficients/scaler/intercepts retained

The implementation may use an exact soft-label optimizer or an algebraically equivalent positive/negative weighted-example construction. Equivalence must be tested on a bounded fixture.

### HLIN regularization selection

Because the prior Ridge alpha is not numerically portable to logistic loss, commission a new bounded absolute-position authority using training data only.

Candidate L2 strengths on mean weighted cross entropy:

`lambda in {1e-5, 1e-4, 1e-3}`

At the frozen 250k training checkpoint, create four deterministic inner folds at complete game-group granularity using seed `20260823`. No outer shallow-holdout or actual-4ply rows may enter selection.

For each lambda, pool all four inner held-out predictions and select lexicographically by:

1. lower mean five-probability RMSE
2. lower probability-derived cubeless RMSE
3. lower mean five-probability MAE
4. smaller lambda

Freeze the selected lambda in the result before fitting/scoring 1M or other outer checkpoints.

## Candidate HADD: hierarchical additive logits

Candidate ID:

`explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-additive-logit-v1`

Use the same probability hierarchy and loss as HLIN, but replace each linear predictor with the repository's already-studied additive quantile-hinge basis:

- one standardized linear term per input feature
- three train-fold quantile hinge terms per feature
- hinge quantiles exactly `[0.25, 0.50, 0.75]`
- no interactions
- knots fit from training rows only
- same L2 lambda grid `{1e-5, 1e-4, 1e-3}`
- same four inner game-group folds and selection rule
- exact scaler, knots, intercepts and every effect coefficient retained

No new additive basis family is authorized.

## Candidate ADDEQ: direct additive cubeless model

Candidate ID:

`explainer-position-value-p3-additive-cubeless-ridge-v1`

This candidate tests nonlinear additive capacity for the user's independent direct-equity objective.

- target: `cubeless_money_equity_derived`
- inputs: frozen P3
- one standardized linear plus three train-fold quantile hinges per feature
- hinge quantiles `[0.25,0.50,0.75]`
- no interactions
- Ridge with intercept
- candidate alphas exactly `{1.0, 10.0, 100.0}`
- same deterministic four inner game-group folds at the 250k checkpoint

Select alpha lexicographically by:

1. lower pooled inner cubeless RMSE
2. lower cubeless MAE
3. smaller alpha

Freeze selected alpha before 1M or outer scoring.

## Evaluation matrix

The existing independent-head P3 Ridge evidence is the reference and must reproduce before candidate interpretation.

### Data checkpoints

Use the existing frozen shallow training checkpoints:

- 250,000 decisions
- 1,000,002 decisions

These are sufficient for the candidate comparison because the completed Ridge learning curve already established data saturation near 1M. Do not rerun all six historical checkpoints for the new nonlinear candidates.

Run HLIN, HADD and ADDEQ at both checkpoints after their training-only hyperparameters are frozen.

### Feature checkpoints

At 250k, additionally run HLIN and ADDEQ on P1 as a representation-control comparison. P1 uses the same selected model hyperparameters as P3; do not retune by feature set.

Required feature/model cells:

- P1 HLIN 250k
- P3 HLIN 250k
- P3 HLIN 1M
- P3 HADD 250k
- P3 HADD 1M
- P1 ADDEQ 250k
- P3 ADDEQ 250k
- P3 ADDEQ 1M

If HADD 1M requires a scalable implementation, prove exact or numerically bounded equivalence against the same algorithm on 250k before scaling. Do not silently substitute a different optimizer/model.

## Primary shallow metrics

For HLIN/HADD report:

- five cumulative probability RMSEs
- mean probability RMSE
- five MAEs and mean MAE
- head biases
- ten-bin calibration evidence
- cross entropy/log loss as a diagnostic
- out-of-range count, required exactly zero
- cumulative-order violations, required exactly zero
- redundant lose inconsistency, required exactly zero
- probability-derived cubeless RMSE/MAE/bias

For ADDEQ report:

- cubeless RMSE
- MAE
- bias
- R2/correlation

Also compare HLIN/HADD probability-derived cubeless to the existing independent-head/direct Ridge cubeless reference.

## Frozen actual-4ply transfer

Without retraining or tuning on actual-4ply rows, score every retained candidate model on the unchanged 6,963-candidate / 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.

For HLIN/HADD report five probability RMSEs, mean probability RMSE, probability-derived cubeless RMSE and validity diagnostics.

For ADDEQ report direct cubeless RMSE.

Candidate selection/top-set accuracy, exact-unique accuracy, regret and fully-novel diagnostics remain downstream only.

The actual-4ply results must not change selected lambdas/alphas or trigger an extra model configuration.

## Interpretation gates

This is a capacity/constraint diagnostic, not a production promotion task.

Report `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_PRESENT` only if at least one constrained candidate:

1. lowers shallow P3/1M mean probability RMSE versus the existing P3/1M Ridge reference;
2. has exactly zero probability-range/order/redundant-lose violations;
3. does not worsen frozen-4ply mean probability RMSE versus the corresponding existing P3/1M Ridge transfer by more than `0.001` absolute;
4. lowers probability-derived cubeless RMSE on at least one of shallow or frozen-4ply evaluation without worsening the other by more than `0.002` absolute.

Otherwise report `PROBABILITY_CONSTRAINT_SIGNAL_NOT_ESTABLISHED`.

Report `ADDITIVE_EQUITY_SIGNAL_PRESENT` only if P3 ADDEQ at 1M lowers shallow cubeless RMSE versus P3/1M direct Ridge and does not worsen frozen-4ply cubeless RMSE by more than `0.002` absolute.

Otherwise report `ADDITIVE_EQUITY_SIGNAL_NOT_ESTABLISHED`.

These gates do not promote production.

## Explanation requirements

HLIN and HADD must retain exact per-feature contributions to each conditional logit.

For candidate A versus B, report exact feature contribution differences on every conditional-logit scale. Shared position facts must cancel naturally.

Do not pretend the nonlinear sigmoid/hierarchy gives an additive equity decomposition. Instead report:

- exact logit contribution differences;
- resulting probability changes;
- resulting probability-derived cubeless difference.

ADDEQ must retain an exact additive cubeless decomposition. For A versus B, the per-feature contribution differences must sum to the predicted cubeless equity difference within `1e-12`.

## Cubeful boundary

Do not rerun or reinterpret calculated cubeful in this task. Preserve:

- direct cubeful target perspective proof: accepted
- prior direct P3+context research RMSE: `0.2970733296`
- calculated cubeful: `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`

If an exact accepted cube-valuation authority is encountered incidentally, record its identity only. Using it requires a separate prospective task.

## Evidence

Publish implementation report/result plus immutable evidence under:

`artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/`

Retain:

- frozen protocol and identities
- inner split manifest
- selected hyperparameters and all inner metrics
- shallow candidate predictions/metrics
- frozen-4ply predictions/metrics
- probability validity/calibration diagnostics
- all HLIN/HADD scaler/knots/logit coefficients
- all ADDEQ scaler/knots/equity coefficients
- exact explanation reconstruction proofs
- runtime/resource evidence
- zero-GNU/source/label proof
- self-verifying manifest and checksums

## Tests

Require at minimum:

- reference P3 Ridge evidence reproduction
- hierarchy target-mass identities
- zero negative success/failure masses within source tolerance
- deterministic hierarchy reconstruction
- zero range/order/redundant-lose violations by construction
- inner group leakage zero
- outer shallow holdout untouched by hyperparameter selection
- actual-4ply untouched by hyperparameter selection
- additive knots train-only
- no interaction terms
- HLIN/HADD exact conditional-logit reconstruction
- ADDEQ exact equity reconstruction
- A-minus-B explanation reconstruction
- deterministic rerun identity
- zero new GNU/source/labels
- evidence self-verification

## Required result

Return:

`EXPLAINER K002 CONSTRAINED/ADDITIVE POSITION MODEL RESULT`

with exact starting/final heads, selected lambdas/alpha, all required shallow and 4ply metrics, validity counts, HLIN/HADD/ADDEQ comparison, explanation reconstruction, signal dispositions, production `UNCHANGED`, evidence identity/tests, and recommended next task.

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# Current Project State

Version: `project-task-manager-current-project-state-v22`
Updated: 2026-08-23 EDT

## Authority

- lifecycle/topology: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-private/master@c9c56567a55f0751b95414a115aa0901023ad855`
- Control Tower: `backgammonsimplified/control-tower/master@575d4faa786310a9b947d2cf4a4c5bfa26eb3a50`
- Task Management transaction base: `backgammonsimplified/task-management/master@3eb9d2f49fe06ef8dc61c42221a7087fd13bbd2f`
- accepted Explainer HADD implementation: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09`
- accepted HADD Task Management result: `c9f3d98587c843bef4ae6c759d7de4bf20f30335`

This transaction adds four temporary independent Explainer research lanes for existing-data overnight work. It launches no Codex, performs no engine computation, changes no production authority, and does not modify `explainer-k002`.

## Active topology

One coordinator owns one lane and at most one active Codex worker. Current lanes are:

```text
analyzer-k001
retcorpus-k001
explainer-k002
sage-gnu-benchmark-k001
sage-gnu-postmatch-k001
explainer-deep-adaptation-k001
explainer-ranking-k001
explainer-representation-k001
explainer-cubeful-k001
```

Existing lane routing is preserved:

- Analyzer: `milestone/analyzer-k001@d88125186dfe12fafe2f08b9736254b70c14e359`; Task 018 position editor ready, Task 017 blocked/preserved.
- Retcorpus: `milestone/retcorpus-k001@6482b048593eb3f0d48d4a70ce43cb734a1659c0`; scripted Post-match Listener prearm ready, no Codex.
- Explainer K002: preserved unchanged; no shared writable scope is granted to the new research lanes.
- Benchmark: existing blocked/hardening routing unchanged; this transaction authorizes no real engine compute.
- Post-match: existing preparation/waiting routing unchanged; no real GNU4 authority added.

## Shared overnight scientific authority

All four new lanes start from exactly `a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09` on separate `backgammon-explainer` research branches. Accepted facts include:

- compact HADD runtime/model authority from `a5ca826...` / Task Management `c9f3d985...`;
- frozen P3 registry SHA-256 `30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287`;
- accepted ranking reference Feature V2 250 / pairwise Ridge D / alpha 10;
- existing 4,011-decision deep resource dataset identity `677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3`;
- protected existing actual-4ply evaluation remains non-adaptive final evidence;
- no new GNU/Sage/source matches/labels/generic 0ply;
- production unchanged;
- `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains unchanged.

Every lane must freeze exact source identities, development/evaluation authority, feature authority, target perspective, model/artifact identity, seed/splits, software environment and host before inspecting that lane's modeling outcomes. No overnight lane may revise another lane's protocol based on observed results.

## Deep Adaptation K001

```text
lane: milestone/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001@1998315680b5a703a9eead5ceb123af22e3e7df4
coordinator: EXPLAINER_DEEP_ADAPTATION_COORDINATOR
task: test-existing-4ply-residual-adaptation-on-frozen-hadd-v1
implementation: research/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
prompt: milestones/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001/prompts/001-test-existing-4ply-residual-adaptation-on-frozen-hadd-v1.md
host order: carbonated-water -> corn-syrup -> HFCS
state: READY_AFTER_MARTY_GO_ALL_FOUR_AND_LIVE_HOST_PREFLIGHT
```

Frozen comparison: exact HADD base, per-head affine-logit calibration, and fixed P3 residual Ridge alpha 10 at existing-deep budgets 539/1009/2019/4011. HADD is not retrained; residual contribution remains separate from HADD explanation semantics.

## Ranking K001

```text
lane: milestone/explainer-ranking-k001@9a5d97e9d14ef9474238a0ddbe788b8500251ded
coordinator: EXPLAINER_RANKING_COORDINATOR
task: compare-hadd-ridge-and-bounded-hybrid-ranking-v1
implementation: research/explainer-ranking-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
prompt: milestones/explainer-ranking-k001/prompts/001-compare-hadd-ridge-and-bounded-hybrid-ranking-v1.md
host order: HFCS -> carbonated-water -> corn-syrup
state: READY_AFTER_MARTY_GO_ALL_FOUR_AND_LIVE_HOST_PREFLIGHT
```

Frozen candidates are accepted Ridge, direct HADD value ranking, fixed HADD value-difference ranking, and one fixed Ridge75/HADD25 within-decision normalized hybrid. No broad ensemble search. Production ranking authority stays unchanged.

## Representation K001

```text
lane: milestone/explainer-representation-k001@e64188579e9d52aecf112e69609f90317ecc49a3
coordinator: EXPLAINER_REPRESENTATION_COORDINATOR
task: diagnose-p3-position-representation-bottlenecks-v1
implementation: research/explainer-representation-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
prompt: milestones/explainer-representation-k001/prompts/001-diagnose-p3-position-representation-bottlenecks-v1.md
host order: corn-syrup -> carbonated-water -> HFCS
state: READY_AFTER_MARTY_GO_ALL_FOUR_AND_LIVE_HOST_PREFLIGHT
```

HADD structure is fixed. P3 macro-family ablations are followed by prospectively frozen, independent factual candidate families for home-board/anchor cohesion, prime/contiguous blocks, blot/contact exposure and race/distribution; already represented families are skipped rather than replaced. One combined all-active candidate is allowed because all family definitions are frozen before results.

## Cubeful K001

```text
lane: milestone/explainer-cubeful-k001@843934790a67c21c984059f2710de51197ba7bee
coordinator: EXPLAINER_CUBEFUL_COORDINATOR
task: test-additive-native-cubeful-position-value-model-v1
implementation: research/explainer-cubeful-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
prompt: milestones/explainer-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-test-additive-native-cubeful-position-value-model-v1.md
host order: carbonated-water -> HFCS -> corn-syrup
state: READY_AFTER_MARTY_GO_ALL_FOUR_AND_LIVE_HOST_PREFLIGHT
```

Phase 0 must uniquely freeze the accepted existing GNU native Cubeful target and accepted direct baseline before fitting. Ambiguity returns `BLOCKED_SCIENTIFIC_AUTHORITY`; no invented target/baseline/split is permitted. The fixed additive candidate uses accepted factual position/match/cube context and HADD-style additive hinges, with exact contribution reconstruction. This does not solve calculated cubeful authority.

## Host isolation and autonomy

Task Manager has no connected SSH/HFCS/carbonated-water/corn-syrup shell, so no live capacity claim is made by this commissioning transaction. After `go all four`, each new coordinator must perform fresh live CPU/load, RAM/MemAvailable/swap, disk/inodes, process tree and tmux preflight before selecting a host. It must account for Corpus Listener/writer, Post Match, historical GNU, Benchmark and the other overnight lanes. Mannitol is forbidden.

Preferred host failure automatically tries the next allowed host. All-host failure blocks only that lane. HFCS work requires demonstrable substantial headroom. CPU-heavy work is `nice -n 19` with BLAS/OMP-family threads constrained to 1 unless repository-owned bounded tooling proves otherwise.

Each lane has separate worktree, tmux, runtime, artifact and log roots and exactly one Codex maximum. After host clearance, healthy runs continue autonomously through implementation, modeling, evaluation, durable artifacts, verification and result. Ordinary negative scientific results are valid completion.

## Coordinator/context gate

All four are genuinely new coordinator contexts and require separate current context packs. No Codex is authorized until each coordinator has returned its NEXT TASK briefing and Marty sends `go all four` to that coordinator context. A single chat message cannot start workers in other coordinator chats.

## Control Tower

Control Tower has generic overnight branch/worktree isolation authority but no exact task identity for these four experiments. Record each as a bounded Task Management research decomposition with `CONTROL_TOWER_RECONCILIATION_PENDING`. No broad Control Tower replan is performed.# Task Manager Current

Version: `project-task-manager-v23`
Updated: 2026-08-23 EDT

## Current state

`FOUR_EXPLAINER_OVERNIGHT_RESEARCH_LANES_COMMISSIONED_AWAITING_CONTEXTS_BRIEFINGS_AND_GO`

## Authority

```text
backgammon-private/master: c9c56567a55f0751b95414a115aa0901023ad855
control-tower/master: 575d4faa786310a9b947d2cf4a4c5bfa26eb3a50
task-management transaction base: 3eb9d2f49fe06ef8dc61c42221a7087fd13bbd2f
accepted HADD implementation: a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
accepted HADD Task Management: c9f3d98587c843bef4ae6c759d7de4bf20f30335
```

Existing Analyzer, Retcorpus, Explainer K002, Benchmark and Post-match routing remains preserved in `coordination/active-lanes.yaml`. This transaction adds four temporary research lanes only. No Codex or engine process has been launched.

## Overnight lanes

### 1. Deep Adaptation

```text
lane: explainer-deep-adaptation-k001
managed: milestone/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001@1998315680b5a703a9eead5ceb123af22e3e7df4
coordinator: EXPLAINER_DEEP_ADAPTATION_COORDINATOR
task: test-existing-4ply-residual-adaptation-on-frozen-hadd-v1
implementation: research/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
host order: carbonated-water -> corn-syrup -> HFCS
prompt: milestones/explainer-deep-adaptation-k001/prompts/001-test-existing-4ply-residual-adaptation-on-frozen-hadd-v1.md
context pack: REQUIRED
```

Freeze HADD base plus bounded existing-deep affine/residual adaptation at 539/1009/2019/4011. No HADD retrain, broad search, new labels/data or protected-evaluation mining.

### 2. Ranking

```text
lane: explainer-ranking-k001
managed: milestone/explainer-ranking-k001@9a5d97e9d14ef9474238a0ddbe788b8500251ded
coordinator: EXPLAINER_RANKING_COORDINATOR
task: compare-hadd-ridge-and-bounded-hybrid-ranking-v1
implementation: research/explainer-ranking-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
host order: HFCS -> carbonated-water -> corn-syrup
prompt: milestones/explainer-ranking-k001/prompts/001-compare-hadd-ridge-and-bounded-hybrid-ranking-v1.md
context pack: REQUIRED
```

Compare accepted Ridge, HADD value, HADD value-difference and one pre-frozen Ridge75/HADD25 hybrid. Production ranking authority remains unchanged.

### 3. Representation

```text
lane: explainer-representation-k001
managed: milestone/explainer-representation-k001@e64188579e9d52aecf112e69609f90317ecc49a3
coordinator: EXPLAINER_REPRESENTATION_COORDINATOR
task: diagnose-p3-position-representation-bottlenecks-v1
implementation: research/explainer-representation-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
host order: corn-syrup -> carbonated-water -> HFCS
prompt: milestones/explainer-representation-k001/prompts/001-diagnose-p3-position-representation-bottlenecks-v1.md
context pack: REQUIRED
```

Keep HADD structure fixed. Perform P3 family ablations, then test only the prospectively frozen factual candidate families and one frozen combined candidate. No feature mining/leakage search.

### 4. Native Cubeful

```text
lane: explainer-cubeful-k001
managed: milestone/explainer-cubeful-k001@843934790a67c21c984059f2710de51197ba7bee
coordinator: EXPLAINER_CUBEFUL_COORDINATOR
task: test-additive-native-cubeful-position-value-model-v1
implementation: research/explainer-cubeful-k001@a5ca826c597e5678d4df60ac469934a218e6cf09
host order: carbonated-water -> HFCS -> corn-syrup
prompt: milestones/explainer-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-test-additive-native-cubeful-position-value-model-v1.md
context pack: REQUIRED
```

Phase 0 must freeze unique accepted existing GNU native Cubeful target/direct-baseline authority before fitting; ambiguity blocks the lane rather than inventing semantics. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains unchanged.

## Shared launch gate

State for all four:

`READY_AFTER_MARTY_GO_ALL_FOUR_AND_LIVE_HOST_PREFLIGHT`.

Task Manager cannot perform the live host checks from this context because no connected server shell is available. Each coordinator therefore performs the fresh preflight after Marty `go all four`, before creating/starting heavy work. Check CPU/load, RAM/MemAvailable/swap, disk/inodes, process tree and tmux; account for Corpus Listener/writer, Post Match, historical GNU, Benchmark and other overnight lanes. Mannitol is forbidden. HFCS requires substantial headroom. Unsafe preferred host automatically falls back; all-host failure blocks only that lane.

Every lane uses separate worktree/tmux/runtime/artifacts/logs, `nice -n 19`, bounded threading and exactly one Codex worker maximum. No cross-lane protocol adaptation is permitted after outcomes begin. Negative results are valid completion.

## Context pack / operator procedure

Generate four separate current lane packs locally from this merged Task Management master, upload each to its own new coordinator chat, and use the standard generated Task Implementer kickoff. Each coordinator must return a concise NEXT TASK briefing and wait.

Then Marty sends exactly:

`go all four`

to each of the four coordinator chats. There is no cross-chat broadcast from one message.

## Control Tower

All four exact research task identities are bounded Task Management decompositions with `CONTROL_TOWER_RECONCILIATION_PENDING`. No Control Tower architecture replan or production promotion is authorized.# Frozen Protocol: Improve Additive Native Cubeful Modeling v1

Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_CODEX`
Lane: `explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`

## Starting authority

Implementation branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
Starting implementation: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
Accepted product architecture remains fixed: `ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
Accepted integration package identity: `f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
`CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains absolute.

## Hypothesis

The successful nonlinear additive architecture can materially improve prediction of EXISTING GNU native Cubeful equity when given accepted factual position representation plus accepted score/match/cube context, without inventing calculated cubeful logic.

## Data and partition freeze

Use existing accepted native Cubeful targets only. Before fitting or inspecting new outcome metrics, discover and record the exact target/data identities and reuse an already frozen TRAIN/DEVELOPMENT/PROTECTED grouping if one exists. If none exists, deterministically create a complete-source-group split from existing accepted data, commit the membership identity, and use that same split for the entire 24-hour program.

No Sage/GNU campaign data may be consumed as training.

## Frozen model comparison

1. reproduce the strongest existing accepted native-Cubeful baseline available in durable Explainer evidence;
2. additive model using accepted position representation only;
3. additive model using accepted position representation plus the full accepted factual match/cube context block.

Model structure, regularization grid, context fields, preprocessing and seeds must be committed before DEVELOPMENT scoring. No broad search.

## Primary metrics

Development RMSE, MAE, bias, correlation/R2 where meaningful, calibration by target magnitude, and exact contribution reconstruction for additive candidates. Segment descriptively by cube ownership, cube value, score, match length, Crawford state and position class using predeclared factual bins.

## Decision rule

`MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT` requires a clear development improvement over the reproduced baseline in both RMSE and MAE, no material global-bias regression, and stable direction across grouped folds. A winner is frozen before any PROTECTED access.

A protected winner may only be classified `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`. Production remains unchanged.

If the additive candidate wins, the next separately frozen experiment is context-family ablation and robustness by match state with exact contribution reconstruction.

If it remains weak, the next experiment diagnoses cube ownership/value/score/match-length/Crawford/position-class error structure before proposing new context representation.

If progress requires missing calculated-cubeful authority, stop that line, record the exact missing interface and redirect the lane. Do not invent it.

## Host boundary

Initial host HFCS. Before every substantial run perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight. Heavy work runs niced. Preserve substantial headroom. Never signal, stop, renice, restart or reconfigure Post Match, Corpus Listener/writer lease, or historical GNU workloads. Yield only this lane's own process tree.

## Absolute boundaries

No new GNU, Sage, source matches, labels, generic 0-ply generation or Sage/GNU campaign training consumption. No production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Adapt between experiments only.

exec
/bin/bash -lc "rg -n -S \"677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3|4,011|4011|deep resource|resource dataset\" . ../tm -g '*.md' -g '*.json' | sed -n '1,420p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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../tm/coordination/current-project-state.md:47:- existing 4,011-decision deep resource dataset identity `677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3`;
../tm/coordination/current-project-state.md:67:Frozen comparison: exact HADD base, per-head affine-logit calibration, and fixed P3 residual Ridge alpha 10 at existing-deep budgets 539/1009/2019/4011. HADD is not retrained; residual contribution remains separate from HADD explanation semantics.
../tm/coordination/task-manager-current.md:37:Freeze HADD base plus bounded existing-deep affine/residual adaptation at 539/1009/2019/4011. No HADD retrain, broad search, new labels/data or protected-evaluation mining.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-100-experiment-v1.md:29:| A | 100 | 0.234011 | 0.314802 | 0.851085 | 0.540262 | 0.013891 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-250-experiment-v1.md:24:| A | 100 | 0.234011 | 0.314802 | 0.851085 | 0.540262 | 0.013891 |
./config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:34:    "decision_count": 4011,
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-model-selection-v1.md:49:| 100 | 0.234011 / 0.314802 / 0.851085 | 0.215382 / 0.289040 / 0.874460 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-targeted-feature-interaction-v1.md:22:- independent 4,011 decisions appended: `0`
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./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-protocol-v1.md:24:- fixed deep resource identity `677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3` and checkpoints 539 / 1,009 / 2,019 / 4,011.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-protocol-v1.md:95:The complete 6-by-4 matrix is computationally modest once the six shallow predictors exist, so no outcome-dependent pruning is permitted. For every group-safe shallow checkpoint and each fixed deep checkpoint 539 / 1,009 / 2,019 / 4,011, each accepted outer fold fits a Feature V2 Ridge-D alpha-10 correction target:
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-protocol-v1.md:99:Reconstruction is `frozen shallow pair prediction + predicted correction`. Training uses only the accepted fold training plus the named existing deterministic deep checkpoint; the unchanged fold holdout is scored once. This matrix creates no labels and does not change the frozen deep resource.
./results/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:5:    "decision_count": 4011,
./results/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:74:    "decision_count": 4011,
./results/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:76:    "identity_sha256": "677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3",
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:9:The best currently validated production/reference system remains `explainer-feature-v2-250-v1`, pairwise Ridge D, alpha 10. The learning curve does not establish that 4,011 independent 4-ply decisions are required, but it also does not support a prospective smaller minimum. No accepted equivalence threshold exists, and performance is non-monotonic across the frozen complete-game checkpoints.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:18:- deterministic deep dataset: `677e9c5b2bdf2821b8bf5296f3aa8242ee9360dff1bb3f1f7ce70c0ec793dcd3`
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:23:The 4,011 Feature-V2-only endpoint reproduced all eight accepted augmented metrics with maximum absolute delta `0.0` at tolerance `1e-12`. The accepted baseline and completed full-deep result were not overwritten or reinterpreted.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:37:Exact source join keys are campaign, worker, source line, source Position ID, source Match ID, ordered dice, and static result Position ID. They cover 4,011/4,011 deep decisions and 18,817/18,817 selected candidates with zero duplicate keys and zero value collisions. The source shallow candidate sets are complete supersets of the selected force-five deep candidate sets.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:50:| acquired-4000 | 4,011 | 124 | 20 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:63:| 4,011 | `0.558988764, 0.510292524, 0.012682584, 0.562043796, 0.012849148, 0.624495832, 0.053610250, 0.046475278` |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:76:| 4,011 | `0.558988764, 0.510292524, 0.012664326, 0.562043796, 0.012830170, 0.624226943, 0.053620192, 0.046480810` | 0.053754765 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:78:The supporting deltas versus Feature V2 are mixed. Top-accuracy deltas from 539 through 4,011 are `-0.003745318`, `+0.002340824`, `-0.000936330`, and `0.0`; regret deltas are `+0.000557584`, `+0.000003745`, `-0.000099251`, and `-0.000018258`. This is not consistently directional evidence of improved sample efficiency.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:88:| 2,019 -> 4,011 | -0.007490637 | -0.008667389 | +0.000269195 | -0.007785888 | +0.000231630 | -0.004840011 | +0.005876247 | +0.006100926 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:103:Error evidence retains all difficult rows and reports contact/race/bearoff strata, high-span cases, five-candidate cases, candidate-rank 3-or-worse failures, pair residual quantiles, and the largest held-out examples. Contact/high-span/deep-ordering failures remain prominent. The frozen shallow pretrainer alone disagrees with the deep top set in 1,178/2,136 decisions. Residual calibration fixes/worsens shallow choices respectively at 539: `546/293`, 1,009: `532/286`, 2,019: `529/279`, and 4,011: `510/274`; the evidence lists the largest corrections and worsenings.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.md:21:The acquired package `e868a584…1ceeb3` was verified before consumption. Only `evaluation-rows.jsonl` was read: 18,817 candidates, 4,011 decisions, 124 complete games/source matches, 20 diversity groups, actual 4-ply labels only. All targets reproduce exactly from the six probabilities, candidate ranks are complete, features are finite, provenance is globally disjoint from the entire frozen population, and no quarantine or native-evidence rows entered modeling. The deterministic dataset identity is `677e9c5b…793dcd3`; its complete decision/group/candidate manifest is retained in `dataset-manifest.json`.
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.md:42:The acquired corpus is clean but distributionally different: 3,362/4,011 decisions have five candidates, versus a four-candidate mode in the accepted population. Its absolute within-decision pair-gap median/p90 is `0.044/0.258`, versus `0.015/0.058` in the accepted population. This force-five/high-gap shift coincides with large coefficient movement and weaker frozen-population generalization. Target reconstruction, perspective, identity, leakage, and completeness checks all pass, so the result does not support a data corruption or inversion explanation.
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./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-v1.md:87:| 100k | 4,011 | 0.557584 | 0.508667 | 0.012714 | 0.560584 | 0.012882 | 0.623958 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-v1.md:91:| 250k | 4,011 | 0.557116 | 0.508126 | 0.012729 | 0.560097 | 0.012897 | 0.623958 |
./docs/modeling/feature-v2-shallow-to-deep-v1.md:95:| 500k | 4,011 | 0.556648 | 0.507584 | 0.012731 | 0.559611 | 0.012899 | 0.623958 |
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# Feature V2 independent 4-ply modeling v1

Status: **PASS — BASELINE_RETAINED**

The best validated Explainer model remains the accepted `explainer-feature-v2-250-v1` pairwise Ridge D system with `alpha=10`. Adding the completed independent corpus to every frozen fold made held-out decision quality materially worse, so no new model artifact was published and Analyzer integration remains unchanged.

## Reconciled authority

The exact feature authority is the ordered 250-feature descriptor in `config/feature_sets/explainer-feature-v2-250-v1.json`: 91 T0 and 159 T1 features, feature-set SHA-256 `5e52e7fa…c84ada2`, registry SHA-256 `927a9501…6a5eee4`, and ordered-ID SHA-256 `2fdc2a5e…7f70041`. Structurally inapplicable context nulls use the frozen null-policy fill; no train/test statistics enter null handling.

Model D creates unordered within-decision pairs ordered by stable candidate ID, removes neutral target ties, predicts `target(right)-target(left)`, and aggregates each candidate's signed margins against siblings. The scalar target is normalized static next-player-on-roll `cubeless_money_equity_derived`; lower is better for the checker-move player. Each decision contributes total pair weight one (`1 / non-tied pair count`). `LinearRidgeModel` fits a training-only `StandardScaler`, then scikit-learn `Ridge(alpha=10, fit_intercept=true)`; there is no random model seed.

The frozen evaluation is 6,963 candidates / 2,136 decisions under `explainer-pair-fold-5x2-v2`, seed `20260811`, assignment `7dfb06ff…3302a8`, and `neutral-target-top-set-v2`. Every fold is disjoint at decision, game, source match, pair, and aligned-opportunity levels. The primary accepted metrics remain top-set accuracy, exact unique-top accuracy, mean regret, fully-novel accuracy/regret, candidate centered-desirability error, and pairwise sign/error diagnostics.

The accepted serialized authority consists of five fold-specific D joblib models in `feature-v2-250-experiment-v1-9f1de1532cdbd38d/models/`; no accepted single production model or Analyzer model-loading contract exists. The earlier selection explicitly stopped short of deployment commissioning.

## Reproduction and dataset

Baseline reproduction passed at the frozen `1e-12` tolerance. Population, feature shape, split identities, and scaler state are exact. Maximum absolute differences were `6.43e-15` for D coefficients, `4.12e-18` for intercepts, `5.22e-15` for metrics, and `1.56e-14` for predictions. Joblib byte hashes are not claimed to reproduce because numerically equivalent BLAS fits serialize different last-bit state.

The acquired package `e868a584…1ceeb3` was verified before consumption. Only `evaluation-rows.jsonl` was read: 18,817 candidates, 4,011 decisions, 124 complete games/source matches, 20 diversity groups, actual 4-ply labels only. All targets reproduce exactly from the six probabilities, candidate ranks are complete, features are finite, provenance is globally disjoint from the entire frozen population, and no quarantine or native-evidence rows entered modeling. The deterministic dataset identity is `677e9c5b…793dcd3`; its complete decision/group/candidate manifest is retained in `dataset-manifest.json`.

## Apples-to-apples result

| Metric | Accepted baseline | Augmented fold training | Delta |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| top-set accuracy | 0.599251 | 0.558989 | -0.040262 |
| exact unique-top accuracy | 0.554713 | 0.510293 | -0.044420 |
| mean target regret | 0.010982 | 0.012683 | +0.001700 |
| fully-novel top-set accuracy | 0.610219 | 0.562044 | -0.048175 |
| fully-novel mean regret | 0.011017 | 0.012849 | +0.001833 |
| pairwise sign accuracy | 0.650444 | 0.624496 | -0.025948 |
| pairwise MAE | 0.026153 | 0.053610 | +0.027457 |
| centered candidate MAE | 0.017091 | 0.046475 | +0.029384 |

Top-set accuracy improved in one of five folds; mean regret improved in none. The deployment-safe model trained on the independent corpus only also regressed: top-set `0.555712`, exact unique-top `0.507584`, mean regret `0.012965`, pairwise sign accuracy `0.622882`.

## Coefficients and errors

All exact per-fold scaler, coefficient, intercept, delta, and raw-unit effective-weight vectors are retained in `coefficient-analysis.json`. The largest standardized shifts involve opponent checker-point variance, player direct-hit-die count, opponent entry-failure probability, player longest prime, and blot covering. Using a descriptive upper-quartile delta threshold, 63 features shifted and 187 were stable. Twelve target-independent contribution examples reconstruct aggregate D scores to at most `4.17e-17`.

The acquired corpus is clean but distributionally different: 3,362/4,011 decisions have five candidates, versus a four-candidate mode in the accepted population. Its absolute within-decision pair-gap median/p90 is `0.044/0.258`, versus `0.015/0.058` in the accepted population. This force-five/high-gap shift coincides with large coefficient movement and weaker frozen-population generalization. Target reconstruction, perspective, identity, leakage, and completeness checks all pass, so the result does not support a data corruption or inversion explanation.

The 50 largest errors are retained without removal. Contact positions dominate the evaluation population and show worse accuracy/regret than bearoff; high target-span and rank-3-or-worse ordering failures dominate the tail. One extreme five-way native-display tie has large derived-target regret under the accepted neutral display-equivalence rule; it is retained exactly rather than silently reclassified.

## Durable evidence

The immutable modeling package is `explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1-e7db147f011cc79b`, identity `e7db147f…2ef49`, manifest SHA-256 `49e68e11…9d61a`. It contains the full dataset manifest, reproduction proof, fold metrics/model states, predictions, coefficient/contribution analysis, error analysis, and selection proof. No model artifact exists because the selection gate failed.

Focused Feature/model tests passed 41/41 and acquisition/package-consumer tests passed 70/70. The broad accepted environment ran 231 passing tests, one configured source-root skip, and one import error because Pillow was absent. The blocked diagnostic module was rerun unchanged in an existing Pillow-capable project environment and passed 7/7; no assertion failed in either environment.
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/bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"deep-4ply-package-v3|e868a584|evaluation-rows.jsonl|acquired_package\" src scripts docs config artifacts/development -g '*.py' -g '*.json' -g '*.md' | sed -n '1,340p' && find /users/a2andrad -path '*deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5*' -o -path '*e868a584c3bfb4a5*' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
exec
/bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,55p' scripts/run_deep_4ply_modeling.py && sed -n '1,60p' scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py && ls -ld /users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages /users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5 2>&1 && ls -lh /users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5 2>&1 && sed -n '1p' /users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/evaluation-rows.jsonl 2>&1" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 2 in 45ms:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Run or verify the frozen K002 Feature V2 250 / Ridge D modeling package."""

from __future__ import annotations

import argparse
import json
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

from backgammon_explainer.deep_4ply_modeling import run_modeling, verify_modeling_package


CANONICAL = Path(
    "/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/"
    "canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f"
)
ARTIFACTS = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002")
FEATURE_75 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-v1-fcb35a209a5037bd"
FEATURE_100 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-100-v1-5eb51621befbf3a2"
FEATURE_250 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-250-v1-cc3fe906c7d2a7f9"
ACCEPTED_EXPERIMENT = (
    ARTIFACTS
    / "feature-v2-250-experiment/feature-v2-250-experiment-v1-9f1de1532cdbd38d"
)
ACQUIRED = (
    ARTIFACTS
    / "deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5"
)
DEFAULT_OUTPUT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-modeling")


def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--canonical-package", type=Path, default=CANONICAL)
    parser.add_argument("--accepted-75-package", type=Path, default=FEATURE_75)
    parser.add_argument("--accepted-100-package", type=Path, default=FEATURE_100)
    parser.add_argument("--feature-250-package", type=Path, default=FEATURE_250)
    parser.add_argument("--accepted-experiment", type=Path, default=ACCEPTED_EXPERIMENT)
    parser.add_argument("--acquired-package", type=Path, default=ACQUIRED)
    parser.add_argument("--output-parent", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_OUTPUT)
    parser.add_argument("--implementation-commit")
    parser.add_argument("--created-at-utc")
    parser.add_argument("--verify-package", type=Path)
    return parser.parse_args()


def _head(root: Path) -> str:
    return subprocess.run(
        ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"],
        cwd=root,
        check=True,
        text=True,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    ).stdout.strip()
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Freeze, fit, score, or verify the K002 shallow-to-deep diagnostic."""

from __future__ import annotations

import argparse
import json
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

from backgammon_explainer.shallow_to_deep import (
    fit_frozen_checkpoints,
    freeze_protocol_manifest,
    publish_evidence_package,
    run_deep_residual_matrix,
    score_frozen_outcomes,
    verify_fit_manifest,
    verify_evidence_package,
    verify_outcome_curves,
    verify_protocol_manifest,
    verify_residual_matrix,
)


CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
ARTIFACTS = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002")
FEATURE_75 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-v1-fcb35a209a5037bd"
FEATURE_100 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-100-v1-5eb51621befbf3a2"
FEATURE_250 = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2/feature-v2-t0-t1-250-v1-cc3fe906c7d2a7f9"
ACCEPTED_EXPERIMENT = ARTIFACTS / "feature-v2-250-experiment/feature-v2-250-experiment-v1-9f1de1532cdbd38d"
PACKAGE_ROOT = ARTIFACTS / "deep-4ply-acquisition/packages"
ACQUIRED = PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5"
CHECKPOINTS = {
    "acquired-500": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-ea013169c394634f",
    "acquired-1000": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-f0c24d1afa46c6cf",
    "acquired-2000": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-ebb9133d1031b97b",
    "acquired-4000": ACQUIRED,
}
SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
DEFAULT_MANIFEST = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
DEFAULT_FIT_MANIFEST = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/fit-manifest.json")
DEFAULT_OUTCOMES = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/outcome-curves.json")
DEFAULT_RESIDUAL = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/residual-matrix.json")
DEFAULT_PACKAGE_PARENT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep")


def _git_head(root: Path) -> str:
    return subprocess.run(
        ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root, check=True, text=True,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    ).stdout.strip()


def main() -> int:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
        "freeze", "fit", "score", "residual", "verify-manifest", "verify-fit",
        "verify-outcomes", "verify-residual", "publish", "verify-package",
    ))
    parser.add_argument("--manifest", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_MANIFEST)
ls: cannot access '/users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-work/runtime/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5': No such file or directory

exec
/bin/bash -lc "ls -ld /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5 && ls -lh /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5 && sed -n '1p' /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/evaluation-rows.jsonl | cut -c1-500 && sed -n '1p' /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/native-evidence.jsonl | cut -c1-700" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 355ms:
drwx------ 2 22058 22058 6 Aug 20 08:03 /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5
total 50M
-rw------- 1 22058 22058  256 Aug 20 08:03 SHA256SUMS
-rw------- 1 22058 22058  60M Aug 20 08:03 evaluation-rows.jsonl
-rw------- 1 22058 22058 103K Aug 20 08:03 manifest.json
-rw------- 1 22058 22058 202M Aug 20 08:03 native-evidence.jsonl
{"actual_ply":4,"analysis_profile_id":"explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3","candidate_concept_id":"798f398c85e7f4a2d8bf5607c478f62749edfa6caa8d7ee8d116894f7dea0fc6","candidate_id":"5e230900e1c428a093375880340789a33bb1230e6bbe3e1bd4509bc2bd35f6ca","candidate_rank":1,"cubeless_money_equity_derived":"0.019","decision_id":"01c0606997541ddae359adc3795e4282bdb95ea1c65621049ca1ebc68078e43c","decision_position_id":"6f3107f3f139f304412bd89164555a83bec96b4bdeed0b2d34a1abd55e473ae8","evaluati
{"engine":{"command_script_sha256":"8f20bdb5c334d3c68711da03fb428d9fba3c2d9157817522b14bfb1e05dc5cc4","cpu_system_seconds":0.15607099999999996,"cpu_user_seconds":90.132858,"elapsed_seconds":90.1939718411304,"executable_path":"/users/a2andrad/scratch/backgammon-explainer-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1/build/gnubg-build-carbonated-python/gnubg","executable_sha256":"4b174b158365e0c9fc006c81ac18affa7502ed12f3e0a2e9cf8b14a46e985408","peak_rss_kib":187708,"profile_readback":{"complete_move_filter":{"entries":[{"accept":5,"extra_moves":11,"prior_ply":0,"requested_ply":1,"threshold":"0.320"},{"accept":5,"extra_moves":11,"prior_ply":0,"requested_ply":2,"threshold":"0.320"},{"accept":-1,"extra_moves":0,"pri

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq -r 'keys[]' /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/evaluation-rows.jsonl | sed -n '1,140p' && jq -r 'keys[]' /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/native-evidence.jsonl | sed -n '1,140p' && jq '{package_id,package_identity_sha256,schema_version,analysis_profile_id,counts,completed}' /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002/deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5/manifest.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 7259ms:
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{
  "package_id": null,
  "package_identity_sha256": "e868a584c3bfb4a562ac43ca5b86dd1a1860ebeb8336c308f4da0cc6dc1ceeb3",
  "schema_version": "explainer-independent-deep-4ply-package-v3",
  "analysis_profile_id": "explainer-independent-cubeful-4ply-force-five-v3",
  "counts": null,
  "completed": null
}

exec
/bin/bash -lc "rg -n '"'^class |''^def |''^[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]+ ='"' src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py | sed -n '1,280p' && sed -n '1,240p' src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py && sed -n '360,740p' src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py && sed -n '740,1030p' src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 51ms:
44:VERSION = "explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-v1"
45:INNER_SPLIT_VERSION = VERSION + "-inner-game-group-fold-4-v1"
46:INNER_SEED = 20260823
47:HINGE_QUANTILES = (0.25, 0.50, 0.75)
48:HLIN_LAMBDAS = (1e-5, 1e-4, 1e-3)
49:HADD_LAMBDAS = HLIN_LAMBDAS
50:ADDEQ_ALPHAS = (1.0, 10.0, 100.0)
51:HEADS = ("q_win", "q_wg", "q_wbg", "q_lg", "q_lbg")
52:MODEL_IDS = {
57:REQUIRED_CELLS = (
63:EXPECTED_ROWS = {"250000": 5_259_760, "1000000": 20_981_224}
66:def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
70:def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
75:def _git_head(path: Path) -> str:
82:def conditional_masses(probabilities: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
94:def reconstruct_probabilities(conditionals: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
108:def sigmoid(values: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
118:def inner_fold_manifest(split_manifest: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
151:def _cache_partition(args: tuple[str, dict[str, int], set[str], dict[tuple[str, str, str], int], str, int]) -> dict[str, Any]:
200:def build_training_cache(
254:class CachePart:
261:def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
275:def _row_mask(part: CachePart, checkpoint: str, held_out_fold: int | None, train: bool) -> np.ndarray:
285:def _iter_batches(
297:class Transform:
344:def fit_transform(
373:class FrozenModel:
427:def _count_rows(parts: Sequence[CachePart], checkpoint: str, held_out_fold: int | None, train: bool) -> int:
431:def _fit_hierarchy(
500:def _fit_ridge(
557:def _adam_step(
570:def _fit_hierarchy_adam(
629:def _fit_ridge_adam(
674:class HierarchyMetrics:
753:def _inner_metrics(model: FrozenModel, parts: Sequence[CachePart], fold: int, batch_size: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
765:def select_hyperparameters(
845:def fit_final_models(
899:def load_frozen_models(path: Path) -> list[FrozenModel]:
913:def refine_addeq_models(
971:def reproduce_reference(
1017:def score_shallow(
1057:def score_actual_4ply(
1083:def explanation_evidence(
1138:def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
1188:def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
1197:def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Frozen constrained/additive absolute-position experiment for K002.

The implementation is intentionally narrow: it supports only the three model
families, feature sets, checkpoints, targets, grids, and grouped split frozen in
the 2026-08-23 protocol.  Material data passes are streaming and deterministic.
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import hashlib
import json
import math
import os
import resource
import subprocess
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence

import numpy as np
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
from scipy.optimize import minimize

from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
from .position_value_experiment import (
    PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS,
    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
    TARGETS,
    RegressionMetrics,
    _candidate_files,
    _choice_metrics,
    _deep_target_matrix,
    _membership,
    _partition_key,
    _targets_from_columns,
    load_frozen_deep_rows,
    load_models,
    position_classes,
)
from .position_value_modeling import EXPECTED_COUNTS, REGISTRIES, position_feature_matrix


VERSION = "explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-v1"
INNER_SPLIT_VERSION = VERSION + "-inner-game-group-fold-4-v1"
INNER_SEED = 20260823
HINGE_QUANTILES = (0.25, 0.50, 0.75)
HLIN_LAMBDAS = (1e-5, 1e-4, 1e-3)
HADD_LAMBDAS = HLIN_LAMBDAS
ADDEQ_ALPHAS = (1.0, 10.0, 100.0)
HEADS = ("q_win", "q_wg", "q_wbg", "q_lg", "q_lbg")
MODEL_IDS = {
    "HLIN": "explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-linear-logit-v1",
    "HADD": "explainer-position-value-p3-hierarchical-additive-logit-v1",
    "ADDEQ": "explainer-position-value-p3-additive-cubeless-ridge-v1",
}
REQUIRED_CELLS = (
    ("HLIN", "P1", "250000"), ("HLIN", "P3", "250000"),
    ("HLIN", "P3", "1000000"), ("HADD", "P3", "250000"),
    ("HADD", "P3", "1000000"), ("ADDEQ", "P1", "250000"),
    ("ADDEQ", "P3", "250000"), ("ADDEQ", "P3", "1000000"),
)
EXPECTED_ROWS = {"250000": 5_259_760, "1000000": 20_981_224}


def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()


def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")


def _git_head(path: Path) -> str:
    return subprocess.run(
        ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=path, check=True, text=True,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    ).stdout.strip()


def conditional_masses(probabilities: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    """Return the protocol-frozen soft-binomial success/failure masses."""

    p = np.asarray(probabilities, dtype=float)
    if p.ndim != 2 or p.shape[1] < 5:
        raise ValueError("five cumulative probabilities are required")
    win, wg, wbg, lg, lbg = (p[:, index] for index in range(5))
    success = np.column_stack((win, wg, wbg, lg, lbg))
    failure = np.column_stack((1.0 - win, win - wg, wg - wbg, (1.0 - win) - lg, lg - lbg))
    return success, failure


def reconstruct_probabilities(conditionals: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    q = np.asarray(conditionals, dtype=float)
    if q.ndim != 2 or q.shape[1] != 5:
        raise ValueError("five conditional probabilities are required")
    win = q[:, 0]
    return np.column_stack((
        win,
        win * q[:, 1],
        win * q[:, 1] * q[:, 2],
        (1.0 - win) * q[:, 3],
        (1.0 - win) * q[:, 3] * q[:, 4],
    ))


def sigmoid(values: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    values = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    result = np.empty_like(values)
    positive = values >= 0
    result[positive] = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-values[positive]))
    exp_values = np.exp(values[~positive])
    result[~positive] = exp_values / (1.0 + exp_values)
    return result


def inner_fold_manifest(split_manifest: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    source = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    games = source["selection"]["train_game_order"][: source["selection"]["checkpoints"]["250000"]["game_prefix_length"]]
    ordered = sorted(
        (str(item["game_id"]) for item in games),
        key=lambda value: (hashlib.sha256(
            stable_json([INNER_SPLIT_VERSION, INNER_SEED, value]).encode()
        ).hexdigest(), value),
    )
    assignments = {game_id: index % 4 for index, game_id in enumerate(ordered)}
    folds = []
    for fold in range(4):
        held = sorted(game for game, assigned in assignments.items() if assigned == fold)
        folds.append({
            "fold": fold,
            "held_out_game_groups": len(held),
            "held_out_membership_sha256": _sha(held),
            "training_held_out_overlap_count": 0,
        })
    payload = {
        "version": INNER_SPLIT_VERSION,
        "seed": INNER_SEED,
        "method": "sort game-group IDs by SHA256([version,seed,game_id]); round-robin four folds",
        "source_split_identity_sha256": source["manifest_identity_sha256"],
        "game_group_count": len(ordered),
        "folds": folds,
        "assignment_identity_sha256": _sha(sorted(assignments.items())),
        "assignments": assignments,
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    return payload


def _cache_partition(args: tuple[str, dict[str, int], set[str], dict[tuple[str, str, str], int], str, int]) -> dict[str, Any]:
    path_text, game_buckets, excluded, fold_by_game, output_text, batch_size = args
    path, output = Path(path_text), Path(output_text)
    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
    folds: list[np.ndarray] = []
    buckets_out: list[np.ndarray] = []
    parquet = pq.ParquetFile(path)
    host, worker = path.parents[1].name, path.parent.name
    for batch in parquet.iter_batches(batch_size=batch_size, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
        data = batch.to_pydict()
        bucket = np.fromiter((game_buckets.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= 4) & np.fromiter(
            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
        )
        indexes = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
        if not len(indexes):
            continue
        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in indexes]
        xs.append(position_feature_matrix(positions).astype(np.float32))
        ys.append(_targets_from_columns(data, indexes)[:, :6].astype(np.float32))
        selected_games = [str(data["game_key"][index]) for index in indexes]
        folds.append(np.fromiter((
            fold_by_game.get((host, worker, game), -1)
            for game in selected_games
        ), dtype=np.int8))
        buckets_out.append(bucket[indexes])
    width = EXPECTED_COUNTS["P3"]
    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, width), dtype=np.float32)
    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty((0, 6), dtype=np.float32)
    fold = np.concatenate(folds) if folds else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
    bucket = np.concatenate(buckets_out) if buckets_out else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
    np.save(output / "fold.npy", fold)
    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", bucket)
    if np.any((bucket <= 2) & (fold < 0)) or np.any((bucket <= 2) & (fold > 3)):
        raise RuntimeError("250k row lacks a valid inner-fold assignment")
    return {
        "source": path_text,
        "cache": output_text,
        "rows_1m": len(x),
        "rows_250k": int(np.count_nonzero(bucket <= 2)),
        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
    }


def build_training_cache(
    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path,
    output_path: Path, workers: int = 10, batch_size: int = 8192,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor

    started = time.time()
    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
    inner = inner_fold_manifest(split_manifest)
    fold_lookup = {}
    for game_id, fold in inner["assignments"].items():
        _, host, worker, game_key = game_id.split("\0", 3)
        fold_lookup[(host, worker, game_key)] = fold
    files = _candidate_files(shallow_root)
    args = []
    for index, path in enumerate(files):
        args.append((
            str(path), train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
            fold_lookup, str(cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}"), batch_size,
        ))
    if workers == 1:
        records = list(map(_cache_partition, args))
    else:
        with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=workers) as executor:
            records = list(executor.map(_cache_partition, args))
    rows = {
        "250000": sum(item["rows_250k"] for item in records),
        "1000000": sum(item["rows_1m"] for item in records),
    }
    if rows != EXPECTED_ROWS:
        raise RuntimeError(f"cached checkpoint rows differ: {rows}")
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1",
        "status": "PASS",
        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
        "partition_count": len(records),
        "partition_order_sha256": _sha([item["source"] for item in records]),
        "checkpoint_candidate_rows": rows,
        "inner_split": {key: value for key, value in inner.items() if key != "assignments"},
        for feature in range(width):
            columns = []
            for part in parts:
                mask = _row_mask(part, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
                columns.append(np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, mask]))
            raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
        knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
    return Transform(
        tuple(item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES[feature_set]), mean, scale, knots,
    )


@dataclass
class FrozenModel:
    family: str
    feature_set: str
    checkpoint: str
    hyperparameter: float
    transform: Transform
    coefficients: np.ndarray
    intercept: np.ndarray
    optimizer: dict[str, Any]

    @property
    def key(self) -> str:
        return f"{self.family}/{self.feature_set}/{self.checkpoint}"

    def linear_predictor(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        basis = self.transform.basis(x[:, : len(self.transform.feature_ids)])
        return basis @ self.coefficients.T + self.intercept

    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        eta = self.linear_predictor(x)
        if self.family in ("HLIN", "HADD"):
            return reconstruct_probabilities(sigmoid(eta))
        return eta[:, 0]

    def feature_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        basis = self.transform.basis(x[:, : len(self.transform.feature_ids)])
        outputs = self.coefficients.shape[0]
        if self.transform.additive:
            grouped = (basis[:, None, :] * self.coefficients[None, :, :]).reshape(
                len(x), outputs, len(self.transform.feature_ids), 4,
            ).sum(axis=3)
            return grouped
        return basis[:, None, :] * self.coefficients[None, :, :]

    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        payload = {
            "candidate_id": MODEL_IDS[self.family],
            "family": self.family,
            "feature_set": self.feature_set,
            "checkpoint": self.checkpoint,
            "hyperparameter": self.hyperparameter,
            "hyperparameter_name": "lambda" if self.family in ("HLIN", "HADD") else "alpha",
            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
            "conditional_heads": list(HEADS) if self.family in ("HLIN", "HADD") else [],
            "target": "five-level conditional probability hierarchy" if self.family in ("HLIN", "HADD") else TARGETS[5],
            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(),
            "intercepts": self.intercept.tolist(),
            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
            "exact_explanation_scale": "conditional logits" if self.family in ("HLIN", "HADD") else "cubeless equity",
        }
        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
        return payload


def _count_rows(parts: Sequence[CachePart], checkpoint: str, held_out_fold: int | None, train: bool) -> int:
    return sum(int(np.count_nonzero(_row_mask(part, checkpoint, held_out_fold, train))) for part in parts)


def _fit_hierarchy(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, lambdas: Sequence[float], max_iter: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    outputs = 5 * len(lambdas)
    width = transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    # Intercept-only soft-binomial optimum is a stable deterministic start.
    success_sum = np.zeros(5); total_sum = np.zeros(5)
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
        success_sum += success.sum(axis=0); total_sum += (success + failure).sum(axis=0)
    base = np.clip(success_sum / total_sum, 1e-8, 1.0 - 1e-8)
    initial_intercept = np.log(base / (1.0 - base))
    initial = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1))
    for index in range(len(lambdas)):
        initial[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, -1] = initial_intercept
    calls = 0

    def objective(flat: np.ndarray) -> tuple[float, np.ndarray]:
        nonlocal calls
        calls += 1
        parameter = flat.reshape(outputs, width + 1)
        coefficient, intercept = parameter[:, :-1], parameter[:, -1]
        gradient_w = np.zeros_like(coefficient); gradient_b = np.zeros_like(intercept)
        loss = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis(x)
            success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
            success = np.tile(success, (1, len(lambdas)))
            failure = np.tile(failure, (1, len(lambdas)))
            eta = basis @ coefficient.T + intercept
            loss += float(np.sum(success * np.logaddexp(0.0, -eta) + failure * np.logaddexp(0.0, eta)))
            residual = (success + failure) * sigmoid(eta) - success
            gradient_w += residual.T @ basis
            gradient_b += residual.sum(axis=0)
        loss /= rows
        gradient_w /= rows; gradient_b /= rows
        for index, value in enumerate(lambdas):
            selected = slice(index * 5, (index + 1) * 5)
            loss += 0.5 * value * float(np.square(coefficient[selected]).sum())
            gradient_w[selected] += value * coefficient[selected]
        gradient = np.column_stack((gradient_w, gradient_b)).ravel()
        return loss, gradient

    started = time.time()
    result = minimize(
        objective, initial.ravel(), method="L-BFGS-B", jac=True,
        options={"maxiter": max_iter, "ftol": 1e-10, "gtol": 1e-6, "maxls": 20, "maxcor": 10},
    )
    final, gradient = objective(np.asarray(result.x))
    parameter = np.asarray(result.x).reshape(outputs, width + 1)
    common = {
        "algorithm": "scipy-L-BFGS-B deterministic streaming full-objective gradient",
        "objective": "mean source-row soft-binomial cross entropy + lambda/2 * squared coefficient norm",
        "success": bool(result.success), "status": int(result.status), "message": str(result.message),
        "iterations": int(result.nit), "function_evaluations": int(result.nfev),
        "streaming_objective_calls_including_final_audit": calls,
        "final_joint_objective": float(final), "maximum_absolute_joint_gradient": float(np.max(np.abs(gradient))),
        "training_rows": rows, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    fitted = []
    for index, value in enumerate(lambdas):
        selected = slice(index * 5, (index + 1) * 5)
        fitted.append((parameter[selected, :-1].copy(), parameter[selected, -1].copy(), {**common, "lambda": value}))
    return fitted


def _fit_ridge(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, alphas: Sequence[float], max_iter: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    outputs, width = len(alphas), transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    target_sum = 0.0
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        target_sum += float(y[:, 5].sum())
    initial = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1)); initial[:, -1] = target_sum / rows
    calls = 0

    def objective(flat: np.ndarray) -> tuple[float, np.ndarray]:
        nonlocal calls
        calls += 1
        parameter = flat.reshape(outputs, width + 1)
        coefficient, intercept = parameter[:, :-1], parameter[:, -1]
        gradient_w = np.zeros_like(coefficient); gradient_b = np.zeros(outputs)
        loss = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis(x)
            residual = basis @ coefficient.T + intercept - y[:, 5, None]
            loss += 0.5 * float(np.square(residual).sum())
            gradient_w += residual.T @ basis
            gradient_b += residual.sum(axis=0)
        # Scaling by row count preserves the exact Ridge minimizer when alpha
        # is scaled identically; it keeps L-BFGS line searches well conditioned.
        loss /= rows; gradient_w /= rows; gradient_b /= rows
        for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas):
            scaled = alpha / rows
            loss += 0.5 * scaled * float(coefficient[index] @ coefficient[index])
            gradient_w[index] += scaled * coefficient[index]
        return loss, np.column_stack((gradient_w, gradient_b)).ravel()

    started = time.time()
    result = minimize(
        objective, initial.ravel(), method="L-BFGS-B", jac=True,
        options={"maxiter": max_iter, "ftol": 1e-12, "gtol": 1e-7, "maxls": 20, "maxcor": 20},
    )
    final, gradient = objective(np.asarray(result.x))
    parameter = np.asarray(result.x).reshape(outputs, width + 1)
    common = {
        "algorithm": "scipy-L-BFGS-B deterministic streaming Ridge objective and exact gradient",
        "objective": "0.5 * sum squared error + 0.5 * alpha * squared coefficient norm",
        "success": bool(result.success), "status": int(result.status), "message": str(result.message),
        "iterations": int(result.nit), "function_evaluations": int(result.nfev),
        "streaming_objective_calls_including_final_audit": calls,
        "final_joint_scaled_objective": float(final), "maximum_absolute_joint_scaled_gradient": float(np.max(np.abs(gradient))),
        "training_rows": rows, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index : index + 1, :-1].copy(), parameter[index : index + 1, -1].copy(), {**common, "alpha": alpha})
        for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas)
    ]


def _adam_step(
    parameter: np.ndarray, gradient: np.ndarray, first: np.ndarray,
    second: np.ndarray, step: int, learning_rate: float,
) -> float:
    first *= 0.9; first += 0.1 * gradient
    second *= 0.999; second += 0.001 * np.square(gradient)
    adjusted = learning_rate * (first / (1.0 - 0.9 ** step)) / (
        np.sqrt(second / (1.0 - 0.999 ** step)) + 1e-8
    )
    parameter -= adjusted
    return float(np.max(np.abs(adjusted)))


def _fit_hierarchy_adam(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, lambdas: Sequence[float], epochs: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    """Deterministic mini-batch optimizer for the exact frozen hierarchy loss."""

    outputs, width = 5 * len(lambdas), transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    success_sum = np.zeros(5); total_sum = np.zeros(5)
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
        success_sum += success.sum(axis=0); total_sum += (success + failure).sum(axis=0)
    base = np.clip(success_sum / total_sum, 1e-8, 1.0 - 1e-8)
    parameter = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1), dtype=np.float32)
    for index in range(len(lambdas)):
        parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, -1] = np.log(base / (1.0 - base))
    first = np.zeros_like(parameter); second = np.zeros_like(parameter)
    step = 0; epoch_records = []; started = time.time()
    learning_rate = 0.012 if transform.additive else 0.02
    for epoch in range(epochs):
        epoch_loss = 0.0; epoch_mass = 0; maximum_update = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis_float32(x)
            success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
            success = np.tile(success, (1, len(lambdas))).astype(np.float32)
            failure = np.tile(failure, (1, len(lambdas))).astype(np.float32)
            eta = basis @ parameter[:, :-1].T + parameter[:, -1]
            epoch_loss += float(np.sum(success * np.logaddexp(0.0, -eta) + failure * np.logaddexp(0.0, eta)))
            epoch_mass += len(x)
            residual = (success + failure) / (1.0 + np.exp(-np.clip(eta, -30.0, 30.0))) - success
            gradient = np.column_stack((residual.T @ basis / len(x), residual.mean(axis=0)))
            for index, value in enumerate(lambdas):
                selected = slice(index * 5, (index + 1) * 5)
                gradient[selected, :-1] += value * parameter[selected, :-1]
            step += 1
            # A partition's short terminal batch receives proportionally less
            # influence than a full batch, preserving source-row weighting.
            batch_lr = learning_rate * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / batch_size)
            maximum_update = max(maximum_update, _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first, second, step, batch_lr))
        epoch_records.append({
            "epoch": epoch + 1,
            "online_mean_joint_soft_binomial_loss": epoch_loss / epoch_mass,
            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": maximum_update,
        })
    common = {
        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam",
        "objective": "mean source-row soft-binomial cross entropy + lambda/2 * squared coefficient norm",
        "epochs": epochs, "batch_size": batch_size, "initial_learning_rate": learning_rate,
        "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75, "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999,
        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
        "success": True, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, :-1].astype(float), parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, -1].astype(float), {**common, "lambda": value, "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference"})
        for index, value in enumerate(lambdas)
    ]


def _fit_ridge_adam(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, alphas: Sequence[float], epochs: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    """Deterministically optimize the standard Ridge objective in batches."""

    outputs, width = len(alphas), transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    target_sum = 0.0
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        target_sum += float(y[:, 5].sum())
    parameter = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1), dtype=np.float32); parameter[:, -1] = target_sum / rows
    first = np.zeros_like(parameter); second = np.zeros_like(parameter)
    step = 0; epoch_records = []; started = time.time(); learning_rate = 0.015
    for epoch in range(epochs):
        epoch_sse = 0.0; epoch_rows = 0; maximum_update = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis_float32(x)
            residual = basis @ parameter[:, :-1].T + parameter[:, -1] - y[:, 5, None]
            epoch_sse += float(np.square(residual).sum()); epoch_rows += len(x)
            gradient = np.column_stack((residual.T @ basis / len(x), residual.mean(axis=0)))
            for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas):
                gradient[index, :-1] += (alpha / rows) * parameter[index, :-1]
            step += 1
            batch_lr = learning_rate * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / batch_size)
            maximum_update = max(maximum_update, _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first, second, step, batch_lr))
        epoch_records.append({
            "epoch": epoch + 1, "online_rmse": math.sqrt(epoch_sse / (epoch_rows * outputs)),
            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": maximum_update,
        })
    common = {
        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
        "objective": "0.5 * sum squared error + 0.5 * alpha * squared coefficient norm",
        "epochs": epochs, "batch_size": batch_size, "initial_learning_rate": learning_rate,
        "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75, "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999,
        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
        "success": True, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index : index + 1, :-1].astype(float), parameter[index : index + 1, -1].astype(float), {**common, "alpha": alpha, "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference"})
        for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas)
    ]


class HierarchyMetrics:
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self.heads = [RegressionMetrics() for _ in range(5)]
        self.derived = RegressionMetrics()
        self.outside = np.zeros(5, dtype=np.int64)
        self.order = np.zeros(4, dtype=np.int64)
        self.redundant_count = 0; self.redundant_max = 0.0
        self.cal_count = np.zeros((5, 10), dtype=np.int64)
        self.cal_pred = np.zeros((5, 10)); self.cal_truth = np.zeros((5, 10))
        self.log_loss_sum = np.zeros(5); self.log_loss_weight = np.zeros(5)

    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> None:
        for index in range(5):
            self.heads[index].add(prediction[:, index], truth[:, index])
            self.outside[index] += np.count_nonzero((prediction[:, index] < 0) | (prediction[:, index] > 1))
            bins = np.clip((prediction[:, index] * 10).astype(int), 0, 9)
            self.cal_count[index] += np.bincount(bins, minlength=10)
            self.cal_pred[index] += np.bincount(bins, weights=prediction[:, index], minlength=10)
            self.cal_truth[index] += np.bincount(bins, weights=truth[:, index], minlength=10)
        lose = 1.0 - prediction[:, 0]
        self.order += (
            np.count_nonzero(prediction[:, 2] > prediction[:, 1]),
            np.count_nonzero(prediction[:, 1] > prediction[:, 0]),
            np.count_nonzero(prediction[:, 4] > prediction[:, 3]),
            np.count_nonzero(prediction[:, 3] > lose),
        )
        redundant = np.abs(lose - (1.0 - prediction[:, 0]))
        self.redundant_count += int(np.count_nonzero(redundant))
        self.redundant_max = max(self.redundant_max, float(redundant.max(initial=0.0)))
        self.derived.add(prediction @ PROBABILITY_WEIGHTS - 1.0, truth[:, 5])
        success, failure = conditional_masses(truth)
        q = np.column_stack((
            prediction[:, 0],
            np.divide(prediction[:, 1], prediction[:, 0], out=np.zeros(len(prediction)), where=prediction[:, 0] > 0),
            np.divide(prediction[:, 2], prediction[:, 1], out=np.zeros(len(prediction)), where=prediction[:, 1] > 0),
            np.divide(prediction[:, 3], 1.0 - prediction[:, 0], out=np.zeros(len(prediction)), where=prediction[:, 0] < 1),
            np.divide(prediction[:, 4], prediction[:, 3], out=np.zeros(len(prediction)), where=prediction[:, 3] > 0),
        ))
        q = np.clip(q, 1e-15, 1.0 - 1e-15)
        self.log_loss_sum += (-(success * np.log(q) + failure * np.log1p(-q))).sum(axis=0)
        self.log_loss_weight += (success + failure).sum(axis=0)

    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        names = TARGETS[:5]
        head_results = {}
        for index, name in enumerate(names):
            value = self.heads[index].result()
            value["outside_0_1"] = int(self.outside[index])
            value["calibration_bins"] = [{
                "bin": bucket, "count": int(self.cal_count[index, bucket]),
                "mean_prediction": self.cal_pred[index, bucket] / self.cal_count[index, bucket] if self.cal_count[index, bucket] else None,
                "mean_truth": self.cal_truth[index, bucket] / self.cal_count[index, bucket] if self.cal_count[index, bucket] else None,
            } for bucket in range(10)]
            head_results[name] = value
        order_names = (
            "win_backgammon_gt_win_gammon_or_better", "win_gammon_or_better_gt_win",
            "lose_backgammon_gt_lose_gammon_or_worse", "lose_gammon_or_worse_gt_lose",
        )
        return {
            "probability_heads": head_results,
            "mean_probability_rmse": float(np.mean([head_results[name]["rmse"] for name in names])),
            "mean_probability_mae": float(np.mean([head_results[name]["mae"] for name in names])),
            "conditional_log_loss": {
                name: self.log_loss_sum[index] / self.log_loss_weight[index]
                for index, name in enumerate(HEADS)
            },
            "mean_conditional_log_loss": float(np.mean(self.log_loss_sum / self.log_loss_weight)),
            "mean_conditional_log_loss": float(np.mean(self.log_loss_sum / self.log_loss_weight)),
            "probability_validity": {
                "out_of_range_by_head": {name: int(self.outside[index]) for index, name in enumerate(names)},
                "out_of_range_total": int(self.outside.sum()),
                "ordering_violations": {name: int(self.order[index]) for index, name in enumerate(order_names)},
                "ordering_violations_total": int(self.order.sum()),
                "redundant_lose_inconsistency_count": self.redundant_count,
                "redundant_lose_maximum_absolute_error": self.redundant_max,
            },
            "probability_derived_cubeless": self.derived.result(),
        }


def _inner_metrics(model: FrozenModel, parts: Sequence[CachePart], fold: int, batch_size: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
    if model.family in ("HLIN", "HADD"):
        metric: Any = HierarchyMetrics()
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint="250000", width=len(model.transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=fold, train=False, batch_size=batch_size):
            metric.add(model.predict(x), y)
        return metric.result()
    metric = RegressionMetrics()
    for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint="250000", width=len(model.transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=fold, train=False, batch_size=batch_size):
        metric.add(model.predict(x), y[:, 5])
    return metric.result()


def select_hyperparameters(
    *, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path, max_iter_hlin: int = 6,
    max_iter_hadd: int = 6, max_iter_addeq: int = 8, batch_size: int = 32768,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
    records: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]] = {"HLIN": [], "HADD": [], "ADDEQ": []}
    pooled: dict[str, dict[float, Any]] = {
        "HLIN": {value: HierarchyMetrics() for value in HLIN_LAMBDAS},
        "HADD": {value: HierarchyMetrics() for value in HADD_LAMBDAS},
        "ADDEQ": {value: RegressionMetrics() for value in ADDEQ_ALPHAS},
    }
    started = time.time()
    for fold in range(4):
        linear_transform = fit_transform(parts, checkpoint="250000", feature_set="P3", held_out_fold=fold, additive=False)
        for value, fitted in zip(HLIN_LAMBDAS, _fit_hierarchy_adam(
            parts, linear_transform, checkpoint="250000", held_out_fold=fold,
            lambdas=HLIN_LAMBDAS, epochs=max_iter_hlin, batch_size=batch_size,
        )):
            model = FrozenModel("HLIN", "P3", "250000-inner", value, linear_transform, *fitted)
            fold_metric = HierarchyMetrics()
            for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint="250000", width=351, held_out_fold=fold, train=False, batch_size=batch_size):
                prediction = model.predict(x)
                fold_metric.add(prediction, y); pooled["HLIN"][value].add(prediction, y)
            metrics = fold_metric.result()
            records["HLIN"].append({"fold": fold, "lambda": value, "metrics": metrics, "optimizer": model.optimizer})
        additive_transform = fit_transform(parts, checkpoint="250000", feature_set="P3", held_out_fold=fold, additive=True)
        for value, fitted in zip(HADD_LAMBDAS, _fit_hierarchy_adam(
            parts, additive_transform, checkpoint="250000", held_out_fold=fold,
            lambdas=HADD_LAMBDAS, epochs=max_iter_hadd, batch_size=batch_size,
        )):
            model = FrozenModel("HADD", "P3", "250000-inner", value, additive_transform, *fitted)
            fold_metric = HierarchyMetrics()
            for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint="250000", width=351, held_out_fold=fold, train=False, batch_size=batch_size):
                prediction = model.predict(x)
                fold_metric.add(prediction, y); pooled["HADD"][value].add(prediction, y)
            metrics = fold_metric.result()
            records["HADD"].append({"fold": fold, "lambda": value, "metrics": metrics, "optimizer": model.optimizer})
        for value, fitted in zip(ADDEQ_ALPHAS, _fit_ridge_adam(
            parts, additive_transform, checkpoint="250000", held_out_fold=fold,
            alphas=ADDEQ_ALPHAS, epochs=max_iter_addeq, batch_size=batch_size,
        )):
            model = FrozenModel("ADDEQ", "P3", "250000-inner", value, additive_transform, *fitted)
            fold_metric = RegressionMetrics()
            for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint="250000", width=351, held_out_fold=fold, train=False, batch_size=batch_size):
                prediction = model.predict(x)
                fold_metric.add(prediction, y[:, 5]); pooled["ADDEQ"][value].add(prediction, y[:, 5])
            metrics = fold_metric.result()
            records["ADDEQ"].append({"fold": fold, "alpha": value, "metrics": metrics, "optimizer": model.optimizer})
    pooled_results = {
        family: {str(value): metric.result() for value, metric in values.items()}
        for family, values in pooled.items()
    }
    selected_hlin = min(HLIN_LAMBDAS, key=lambda value: (
        pooled_results["HLIN"][str(value)]["mean_probability_rmse"],
        pooled_results["HLIN"][str(value)]["probability_derived_cubeless"]["rmse"],
        pooled_results["HLIN"][str(value)]["mean_probability_mae"], value,
    ))
    selected_hadd = min(HADD_LAMBDAS, key=lambda value: (
        pooled_results["HADD"][str(value)]["mean_probability_rmse"],
        pooled_results["HADD"][str(value)]["probability_derived_cubeless"]["rmse"],
        pooled_results["HADD"][str(value)]["mean_probability_mae"], value,
    ))
    selected_addeq = min(ADDEQ_ALPHAS, key=lambda value: (
        pooled_results["ADDEQ"][str(value)]["rmse"],
        pooled_results["ADDEQ"][str(value)]["mae"], value,
    ))
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-inner-selection-v1", "status": "PASS",
        "selection_authority": "training-only four-fold complete game-group inner predictions at 250k",
        "outer_shallow_holdout_accessed": False, "actual_4ply_accessed": False,
        "grids": {"HLIN_lambda": list(HLIN_LAMBDAS), "HADD_lambda": list(HADD_LAMBDAS), "ADDEQ_alpha": list(ADDEQ_ALPHAS)},
        "fold_records": records, "pooled_metrics": pooled_results,
        "selected": {"HLIN_lambda": selected_hlin, "HADD_lambda": selected_hadd, "ADDEQ_alpha": selected_addeq},
        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(output_path, payload)
    return payload


def fit_final_models(
    *, cache_root: Path, selection_path: Path, output_path: Path,
    max_iter_hlin: int = 8, max_iter_hadd: int = 8,
    max_iter_addeq: int = 10, batch_size: int = 32768,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
    selected = json.loads(selection_path.read_text())["selected"]
    models: list[FrozenModel] = []
    started = time.time()
    for checkpoint in ("250000", "1000000"):
        linear = fit_transform(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, feature_set="P3", held_out_fold=None, additive=False)
        fitted = _fit_hierarchy_adam(
            parts, linear, checkpoint=checkpoint, held_out_fold=None,
            lambdas=(selected["HLIN_lambda"],), epochs=max_iter_hlin, batch_size=batch_size,
        )[0]
        models.append(FrozenModel("HLIN", "P3", checkpoint, selected["HLIN_lambda"], linear, *fitted))
        additive = fit_transform(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, feature_set="P3", held_out_fold=None, additive=True)
        fitted = _fit_hierarchy_adam(
            parts, additive, checkpoint=checkpoint, held_out_fold=None,
            lambdas=(selected["HADD_lambda"],), epochs=max_iter_hadd, batch_size=batch_size,
        )[0]
        models.append(FrozenModel("HADD", "P3", checkpoint, selected["HADD_lambda"], additive, *fitted))
        fitted = _fit_ridge_adam(
            parts, additive, checkpoint=checkpoint, held_out_fold=None,
            alphas=(selected["ADDEQ_alpha"],), epochs=max_iter_addeq, batch_size=batch_size,
        )[0]
        models.append(FrozenModel("ADDEQ", "P3", checkpoint, selected["ADDEQ_alpha"], additive, *fitted))
        if checkpoint == "250000":
            p1_linear = Transform(tuple(item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES["P1"]), linear.mean[:244], linear.scale[:244], None)
            fitted = _fit_hierarchy_adam(
                parts, p1_linear, checkpoint=checkpoint, held_out_fold=None,
                lambdas=(selected["HLIN_lambda"],), epochs=max_iter_hlin, batch_size=batch_size,
            )[0]
            models.append(FrozenModel("HLIN", "P1", checkpoint, selected["HLIN_lambda"], p1_linear, *fitted))
            p1_additive = Transform(tuple(item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES["P1"]), additive.mean[:244], additive.scale[:244], additive.knots[:244])
            fitted = _fit_ridge_adam(
                parts, p1_additive, checkpoint=checkpoint, held_out_fold=None,
                alphas=(selected["ADDEQ_alpha"],), epochs=max_iter_addeq, batch_size=batch_size,
            )[0]
            models.append(FrozenModel("ADDEQ", "P1", checkpoint, selected["ADDEQ_alpha"], p1_additive, *fitted))
    order = {cell: index for index, cell in enumerate(REQUIRED_CELLS)}
    models.sort(key=lambda model: order[(model.family, model.feature_set, model.checkpoint)])
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS",
        "required_cells": [list(cell) for cell in REQUIRED_CELLS],
        "selection_identity_sha256": json.loads(selection_path.read_text())["identity_sha256"],
        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(output_path, payload)
    return payload


def load_frozen_models(path: Path) -> list[FrozenModel]:
    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
    models = []
    for item in payload["models"]:
        transform = item["transform"]
        knots = np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"], dtype=float) if transform["hinge_quantiles"] else None
        models.append(FrozenModel(
            item["family"], item["feature_set"], item["checkpoint"], float(item["hyperparameter"]),
            Transform(tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]), knots),
            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), np.asarray(item["intercepts"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
        ))
    return models


def refine_addeq_models(
    *, cache_root: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
    epochs: int = 6, batch_size: int = 32768,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    """Training-only convergence repair applied uniformly to selected ADDEQ cells."""

    parts = load_cache(cache_root); models = load_frozen_models(models_path)
    started = time.time(); repaired = []
    for model in models:
        if model.family != "ADDEQ":
            repaired.append(model); continue
        rows = _count_rows(parts, model.checkpoint, None, True)
        parameter = np.column_stack((model.coefficients, model.intercept)).astype(np.float32)
        first = np.zeros_like(parameter); second = np.zeros_like(parameter)
        step = 0; records = []; average = np.zeros_like(parameter, dtype=float); average_count = 0
        for epoch in range(epochs):
            sse = 0.0; seen = 0; maximum_update = 0.0
            for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=model.checkpoint, width=len(model.transform.feature_ids), train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
                basis = model.transform.basis_float32(x)
                residual = basis @ parameter[:, :-1].T + parameter[:, -1] - y[:, 5, None]
                sse += float(np.square(residual).sum()); seen += len(x)
                gradient = np.column_stack((residual.T @ basis / len(x), residual.mean(axis=0)))
                gradient[0, :-1] += (model.hyperparameter / rows) * parameter[0, :-1]
                step += 1
                learning_rate = 0.001 * (0.8 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / batch_size)
                maximum_update = max(maximum_update, _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first, second, step, learning_rate))
                if epoch >= epochs - 2:
                    average += parameter; average_count += 1
            records.append({"epoch": epoch + 1, "online_rmse": math.sqrt(sse / seen), "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": maximum_update})
        if average_count:
            parameter = (average / average_count).astype(np.float32)
        optimizer = {
            **model.optimizer,
            "convergence_repair": {
                "authority": "training trace only; uniformly applied to every selected ADDEQ final cell before accepted outer scoring",
                "reason": "initial fixed fit retained non-negligible updates and checkpoint-dependent online loss; refinement does not access outer rows or change selected alpha",
                "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam warm start with Polyak average over final two epochs",
                "epochs": epochs, "initial_learning_rate": 0.001,
                "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.8, "training_rows": rows,
                "epoch_records": records, "polyak_average_updates": average_count,
            },
        }
        repaired.append(FrozenModel(
            model.family, model.feature_set, model.checkpoint, model.hyperparameter,
            model.transform, parameter[:, :-1].astype(float), parameter[:, -1].astype(float), optimizer,
        ))
    source = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS",
        "required_cells": source["required_cells"],
        "selection_identity_sha256": source["selection_identity_sha256"],
        "convergence_repair": "ADDEQ_TRAINING_ONLY_UNIFORM",
        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in repaired],
        "elapsed_seconds": source.get("elapsed_seconds", 0.0) + (time.time() - started),
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload); _write(output_path, payload); return payload


def reproduce_reference(
    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
    accepted_holdout: Path, output_path: Path, batch_size: int = 16384,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    manifest = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
    _, holdout, _ = _membership(manifest)
    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models) if model.feature_set == "P3" and model.checkpoint == "1000000"]
    if len(matches) != 1:
        raise RuntimeError("accepted P3/1M Ridge model missing")
    model = matches[0]
    from .position_value_experiment import PositionModelMetrics
    metric = PositionModelMetrics(); rows = 0; decisions: set[str] = set()
    started = time.time()
    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
        if not games:
            continue
        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=batch_size, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
            data = batch.to_pydict()
            indexes = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
            if not len(indexes):
                continue
            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in indexes]
            truth = _targets_from_columns(data, indexes)
            metric.add(model.predict(position_feature_matrix(positions)), truth, position_classes(positions))
            rows += len(indexes); decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in indexes)
    observed = metric.result()
    accepted = json.loads(accepted_holdout.read_text())["metrics"]["P3/1000000"]
    fields = {
        "mean_probability_rmse": abs(observed["mean_probability_rmse"] - accepted["mean_probability_rmse"]),
        "direct_cubeless_rmse": abs(observed["direct_cubeless"]["rmse"] - accepted["direct_cubeless"]["rmse"]),
        "probability_derived_cubeless_rmse": abs(observed["probability_derived_cubeless"]["rmse"] - accepted["probability_derived_cubeless"]["rmse"]),
    }
    if rows != 2_094_039 or len(decisions) != 100_015 or max(fields.values()) > 1e-12:
        raise RuntimeError("accepted P3 Ridge evidence did not reproduce")
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-reference-reproduction-v1", "status": "PASS",
        "reference_evidence_package_identity": "0f4ced56c2c7898139f7f5e77877c801237a799fa183b6902c5060c40fb67d2c",
        "reference_model": "P3/1000000 independent-head Ridge alpha 10",
        "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
        "metrics": observed, "accepted_comparison_absolute_errors": fields,
        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload); _write(output_path, payload); return payload


def score_shallow(
    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, models_path: Path,
    output_path: Path, batch_size: int = 8192,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
    manifest = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text()); _, holdout, _ = _membership(manifest)
    models = load_frozen_models(models_path)
    metrics: dict[str, Any] = {
        model.key: HierarchyMetrics() if model.family in ("HLIN", "HADD") else RegressionMetrics()
        for model in models
    }
    rows = 0; decisions: set[str] = set(); started = time.time()
    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
        if not games:

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '.models[] | select(.targets == [\"native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player\"]) | {feature_set,checkpoint,alpha,feature_count:(.feature_ids|length),training_rows,model_identity_sha256}' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json && jq '{version,status,target,candidates,decisions,metrics,position_class_strata,model_identity_sha256,identity_sha256}' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/direct-cubeful.json && jq '{manifest_identity_sha256,source_authority,selection:{holdout:.selection.holdout,checkpoints:.selection.checkpoints,train_game_count:(.selection.train_game_order|length),test_game_count:(.selection.test_game_order|length)},frozen_evaluation,exact_position_exclusion:{excluded_decision_membership_sha256:.exact_position_exclusion.excluded_decision_membership_sha256,excluded_decisions:(.exact_position_exclusion.excluded_decision_ids|length)}}' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 1362ms:
{
  "feature_set": "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT",
  "checkpoint": "full",
  "alpha": 10.0,
  "feature_count": 366,
  "training_rows": null,
  "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5"
}
{
  "version": "explainer-k002-position-value-modeling-v1-direct-cubeful-v1",
  "status": "PASS",
  "target": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
  "candidates": 2094039,
  "decisions": 100015,
  "metrics": {
    "bias": -0.00008138135533679262,
    "correlation": 0.8922126398847785,
    "mae": 0.2215157712310871,
    "r2": 0.7960430066130011,
    "rmse": 0.29707332956861665,
    "rows": 2094039
  },
  "position_class_strata": {
    "bar": {
      "bias": -0.02179339464251714,
      "correlation": 0.8827537828270952,
      "mae": 0.2564838731632774,
      "r2": 0.7686016121327358,
      "rmse": 0.33486353687572495,
      "rows": 553308
    },
    "bearoff": {
      "bias": -0.020265769249889393,
      "correlation": 0.7643078554377378,
      "mae": 0.38531430677141865,
      "r2": 0.5728179690549199,
      "rmse": 0.4604453814619382,
      "rows": 47434
    },
    "contact": {
      "bias": 0.008726669061690687,
      "correlation": 0.8492702983127547,
      "mae": 0.1921805202522113,
      "r2": 0.718273483377051,
      "rmse": 0.25997545009695894,
      "rows": 1344928
    },
    "race": {
      "bias": 0.007498795582038827,
      "correlation": 0.9185776616725455,
      "mae": 0.3046601622413481,
      "r2": 0.8437249267235241,
      "rmse": 0.38334610710505695,
      "rows": 148369
    }
  },
  "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
  "identity_sha256": "1593bfb56d4a145742492cd17997c15f23bd3f66167a1efa95002c1f01b695fa"
}
{
  "manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
  "source_authority": {
    "actual_ply": 0,
    "campaign": "gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z",
    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful",
    "population": {
      "candidates": 51375278,
      "decisions": 2475532,
      "workers": 82
    },
    "repository": "/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling",
    "repository_commit": "bf68eab79169ec07ebfcde142af91f4e2fe01145",
    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
    "validation_sha256": "cafe71eb5a9105f528ab0d84a0f2b4aed08bd5ce27fba8672b58016020b2a69c"
  },
  "selection": {
    "holdout": {
      "boundary_game_id": "gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z\u0000carbonated-water\u0000worker-030\u0000gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z/carbonated-water/worker-030/84",
      "boundary_order_sha256": "345ecd160560250b724393a2de9ccfb9fa1684b0d19ff4ab5f020bc48598e5fb",
      "candidates": 2094039,
      "complete_games": 3178,
      "decisions": 100015,
      "game_membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544",
      "game_prefix_length": 3178,
      "nominal_decisions": 100000,
      "worker_groups": 82
    },
    "checkpoints": {
      "100000": {
        "boundary_game_id": "gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z\u0000mannitol\u0000worker-004\u0000gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z/mannitol/worker-004/415",
        "boundary_order_sha256": "0d5e4f272b27fd9d3406188e38e0adc7952bfaba90399426c934c9a98cd01060",
        "candidates": 2108485,
        "complete_games": 3220,
        "decisions": 100009,
        "game_membership_sha256": "2bf725eba51331d700be6bb4bad9cd584395b450319052169cd244c793f1d75d",
        "game_prefix_length": 3220,
        "nominal_decisions": 100000,
        "worker_groups": 82
      },
      "1000000": {
        "boundary_game_id": "gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z\u0000high-fructose-corn-syrup\u0000worker-020\u0000gnuraw-streaming-3600s-20260809T194141Z/high-fructose-corn-syrup/worker-020/215",
        "boundary_order_sha256": "861c9751119868862bd5b028c0a5f05b0aae40b2e17518aaceed2e0f259764b1",
        "candidates": 20981224,
        "complete_games": 32228,
        "decisions": 1000002,
        "game_membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec",
        "game_prefix_length": 32228,
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I found an already-frozen partition authority, so I will not create a new split: TRAIN is the frozen complete-game 1,000,002-decision checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is its disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority. The unique durable baseline is the accepted P3 plus 15 factual context Ridge model (alpha 10); the candidate basis is the already-accepted HADD-style linear-plus-three-quantile-hinges form. I’m checking host headroom and reusable accepted caches before freezing those exact identities and model choices in the first commit.
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high-fructose-corn-syrup
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'/users/a2andrad/.codex/shell_snapshots/01a031cb-9f39-7030-b9c9-920815c23301.1787541823431794774.sh' >/dev/null 2>&1; then :; fi  if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_SET_0}" ]; then export CODEX_APPLY_PATCH_PRESERVE_LINE_ENDINGS="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_0}"; else unset CODEX_APPLY_PATCH_PRESERVE_LINE_ENDINGS; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_SET_1}" ]; then export CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_1}"; else unset CODEX_PERMISSION_PROFILE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_SET_2}" ]; then export CODEX_PLUGIN_METRICS_OUTPUT="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_2}"; else unset CODEX_PLUGIN_METRICS_OUTPUT; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_SET_3}" ]; then export CODEX_SESSION_ID="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_3}"; else unset CODEX_SESSION_ID; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_SET_4}" ]; then export CODEX_THREAD_ID="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE_4}"; else unset CODEX_THREAD_ID; fi if [ -n "$__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_ENV_SET" ] || [ -n "${CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ACTIVE+x}" ]; then if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_0}" ]; then export ALL_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_0}"; else unset ALL_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_1}" ]; then export BUNDLE_HTTPS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_1}"; else unset BUNDLE_HTTPS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_2}" ]; then export BUNDLE_HTTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_2}"; else unset BUNDLE_HTTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_3}" ]; then export BUNDLE_NO_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_3}"; else unset BUNDLE_NO_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_4}" ]; then export BUNDLE_SSL_CA_CERT="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_4}"; else unset BUNDLE_SSL_CA_CERT; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_5}" ]; then export CARGO_HTTP_CAINFO="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_5}"; else unset CARGO_HTTP_CAINFO; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_6}" ]; then export CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_6}"; else unset CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_7}" ]; then export CODEX_NETWORK_ALLOW_LOCAL_BINDING="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_7}"; else unset CODEX_NETWORK_ALLOW_LOCAL_BINDING; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_8}" ]; then export CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ACTIVE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_8}"; else unset CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ACTIVE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_9}" ]; then export CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ATTRIBUTION="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_9}"; else unset CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_ATTRIBUTION; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_10}" ]; then export CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_BROKERED_CREDENTIALS="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_10}"; else unset CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_BROKERED_CREDENTIALS; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_11}" ]; then export CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_CREDENTIAL_BROKER_ACTIVE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_11}"; else unset CODEX_NETWORK_PROXY_CREDENTIAL_BROKER_ACTIVE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_12}" ]; then export CURL_CA_BUNDLE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_12}"; else unset CURL_CA_BUNDLE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_13}" ]; then export DOCKER_HTTPS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_13}"; else unset DOCKER_HTTPS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_14}" ]; then export DOCKER_HTTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_14}"; else unset DOCKER_HTTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_15}" ]; then export ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_15}"; else unset ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_16}" ]; then export FTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_16}"; else unset FTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_17}" ]; then export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_17}"; else unset GIT_SSL_CAINFO; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_18}" ]; then export HTTPS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_18}"; else unset HTTPS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_19}" ]; then export HTTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_19}"; else unset HTTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_20}" ]; then export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_20}"; else unset NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_21}" ]; then export NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_21}"; else unset NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_22}" ]; then export NO_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_22}"; else unset NO_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_23}" ]; then export NPM_CONFIG_CAFILE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_23}"; else unset NPM_CONFIG_CAFILE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_24}" ]; then export NPM_CONFIG_HTTPS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_24}"; else unset NPM_CONFIG_HTTPS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_25}" ]; then export NPM_CONFIG_HTTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_25}"; else unset NPM_CONFIG_HTTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_26}" ]; then export NPM_CONFIG_NOPROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_26}"; else unset NPM_CONFIG_NOPROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_27}" ]; then export NPM_CONFIG_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_27}"; else unset NPM_CONFIG_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_28}" ]; then export PIP_CERT="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_28}"; else unset PIP_CERT; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_29}" ]; then export PIP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_29}"; else unset PIP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_30}" ]; then export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_30}"; else unset REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_31}" ]; then export SSL_CERT_FILE="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_31}"; else unset SSL_CERT_FILE; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_32}" ]; then export WSS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_32}"; else unset WSS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_33}" ]; then export WS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_33}"; else unset WS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_34}" ]; then export YARN_HTTPS_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_34}"; else unset YARN_HTTPS_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_35}" ]; then export YARN_HTTP_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_35}"; else unset YARN_HTTP_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_36}" ]; then export YARN_NO_PROXY="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_36}"; else unset YARN_NO_PROXY; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_37}" ]; then export all_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_37}"; else unset all_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_38}" ]; then export ftp_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_38}"; else unset ftp_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_39}" ]; then export http_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_39}"; else unset http_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_40}" ]; then export https_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_40}"; else unset https_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_41}" ]; then export no_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_41}"; else unset no_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_42}" ]; then export npm_config_cafile="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_42}"; else unset npm_config_cafile; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_43}" ]; then export npm_config_http_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_43}"; else unset npm_config_http_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_44}" ]; then export npm_config_https_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_44}"; else unset npm_config_https_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_45}" ]; then export npm_config_noproxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_45}"; else unset npm_config_noproxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_46}" ]; then export npm_config_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_46}"; else unset npm_config_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_47}" ]; then export ws_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_47}"; else unset ws_proxy; fi if [ -n "${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_SET_48}" ]; then export wss_proxy="${__CODEX_SNAPSHOT_PROXY_OVERRIDE_48}"; else unset wss_proxy; fi fi if [ -n "${PATH:-}" ]; then export PATH='/users/a2andrad/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.149.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-path':"$PATH"; else export PATH='/users/a2andrad/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.149.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-path'; fi  exec '/bin/bash' -c 'hostname && uptime && free -h && df -h /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code /tmp && df -i /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code /tmp && ps -eo pid,ppid,ni,%cpu,%mem,rss,etimes,comm,args --sort=-%cpu | sed -n '"'"'1,80p'"'"' && find /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002 -maxdepth 7 -type d \( -iname '"'"'*constrained*cache*'"'"' -o -iname '"'"'*training-cache*'"'"' -o -iname '"'"'partition-000'"'"' \) 2>/dev/null | sed -n '"'"'1,160p'"'"''
      2       1  19 20.0  0.0  3204       0 bash            /bin/bash -c hostname && uptime && free -h && df -h /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code /tmp && df -i /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code /tmp && ps -eo pid,ppid,ni,%cpu,%mem,rss,etimes,comm,args --sort=-%cpu | sed -n '1,80p' && find /users/a2andrad/scratch /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k002 -maxdepth 7 -type d \( -iname '*constrained*cache*' -o -iname '*training-cache*' -o -iname 'partition-000' \) 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,160p'
      8       2  19  0.0  0.0  3876       0 ps              ps -eo pid,ppid,ni,%cpu,%mem,rss,etimes,comm,args --sort=-%cpu
      9       2  19  0.0  0.0  2212       0 sed             sed -n 1,80p

exec
/bin/bash -lc "sha256sum artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/direct-cubeful.json artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md artifacts/development/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1/manifest.json && ls -ld /users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001 /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f && sha256sum /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f/manifest.json && python - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
from backgammon_explainer.canonical_analysis import stable_json
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import all_registry_descriptors
r=all_registry_descriptors()
print('direct_registry_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json(r['direct_cubeful']).encode()).hexdigest())
print('context_order_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json([x['feature_id'] for x in r['direct_cubeful']['ordered_features'][351:]]).encode()).hexdigest())
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 127 in 302ms:
1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json
b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/models.json
29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/direct-cubeful.json
38e32ec574b0a74c4a4308514d6a9dbbd25b0d500cbbbad030fb52584bea23aa  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/frozen-authorities.json
07937fa8f3455db9abaf75693ab248a23d618ac249a04234cb4f9de30d1da996  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/protocol.md
626a78bc7cbbead3ad378085b74f87c5282428c1de8ea59ab136cd68057375a9  artifacts/development/explainer-k002-compact-hadd-integration-contract-v1/manifest.json
drwxr-xr-x 6 22058 22058  6 Aug  9 20:45 /users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001
drwx------ 2 22058 22058 16 Aug 10 21:55 /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f
effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7  /users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f/manifest.json
/bin/bash: line 1: python: command not found

exec
/bin/bash -lc "command -v python3 && python3 - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
from backgammon_explainer.canonical_analysis import stable_json
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import all_registry_descriptors
r=all_registry_descriptors()
print('direct_registry_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json(r['direct_cubeful']).encode()).hexdigest())
print('context_order_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json([x['feature_id'] for x in r['direct_cubeful']['ordered_features'][351:]]).encode()).hexdigest())
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 117ms:
/usr/bin/python3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'

exec
/bin/bash -lc "ls -la | sed -n '1,100p' && command -v uv || true && find /users/a2andrad -maxdepth 4 -type f -path '*/bin/python' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 2320ms:
total 286
drwxr-xr-x 13 22058 22058   18 Aug 23 23:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 22058 22058   10 Aug 23 23:25 ..
dr-xr-xr-x  2 22058 22058   40 Aug 23 23:28 .agents
dr-xr-xr-x  2 22058 22058   40 Aug 23 23:28 .codex
drwxr-xr-x 11 22058 22058   19 Aug 23 23:25 .git
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058  349 Aug 23 23:10 .gitattributes
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058  194 Aug 23 23:10 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058 2116 Aug 23 23:10 TASK.md
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058 5216 Aug 23 23:10 TASK_RESEARCH.md
drwxr-xr-x  4 22058 22058    4 Aug 23 23:10 artifacts
drwxr-xr-x  4 22058 22058    4 Aug 23 23:11 build
drwxr-xr-x 12 22058 22058   12 Aug 23 23:11 config
drwxr-xr-x  5 22058 22058   11 Aug 23 23:11 docs
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058  332 Aug 23 23:11 pyproject.toml
drwxr-xr-x  2 22058 22058   32 Aug 23 23:11 results
drwxr-xr-x  2 22058 22058   54 Aug 23 23:11 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058    3 Aug 23 23:11 src
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058   39 Aug 23 23:11 tests
/users/a2andrad/.local/bin/uv
/users/a2andrad/venv/gwem/bin/python
/users/a2andrad/venv/data-science/bin/python

exec
/bin/bash -lc "PYTHONPATH=src /users/a2andrad/venv/data-science/bin/python - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
from backgammon_explainer.canonical_analysis import stable_json
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import all_registry_descriptors
r=all_registry_descriptors()
print('direct_registry_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json(r['direct_cubeful']).encode()).hexdigest())
print('context_order_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json([x['feature_id'] for x in r['direct_cubeful']['ordered_features'][351:]]).encode()).hexdigest())
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 217ms:
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named hashlib

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find build -maxdepth 3 -type f \\( -name python -o -name python3 -o -name pytest \\) -print && find /users/a2andrad -maxdepth 6 -type f \\( -name python -o -name python3 \\) 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,200p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 10787ms:
/users/a2andrad/venv/gwem/bin/python
/users/a2andrad/venv/data-science/bin/python

exec
/bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,180p' pyproject.toml && ls -la /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,80p' && command -v pytest || true && command -v python3.14 || true && command -v python3.13 || true && command -v python3.12 || true && command -v python3.11 || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 54ms:
[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=61"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

[project]
name = "backgammon-explainer"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Auditable backgammon candidate-data research tools"
requires-python = ">=3.7"

[tool.setuptools]
package-dir = {"" = "src"}

[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
where = ["src"]
total 51
drwxr-xr-x  9 22058 22058 12 Aug 23 11:43 .
drwxrwxr-x 37 22058 22058 40 Aug 19 20:13 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058  1 Jul 23 16:54 .gitignore
-rw-rw-rw-  1 22058 22058  0 Jul 23 16:54 .lock
-rw-r--r--  1 22058 22058 43 Jul 23 16:54 CACHEDIR.TAG
drwxr-xr-x 25 22058 22058 25 Aug 23 11:43 archive-v0
drwxr-xr-x  2 22058 22058  2 Aug 23 11:43 builds-v0
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058  3 Aug 23 11:42 environments-v2
drwxr-xr-x  4 22058 22058  4 Aug 23 10:16 interpreter-v4
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058  5 Jul 23 17:06 sdists-v9
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058  3 Jul 23 16:54 simple-v24
drwxr-xr-x  3 22058 22058  3 Jul 23 16:54 wheels-v6
/usr/bin/python3.13

exec
/bin/bash -lc "uv run --offline --with numpy --with scipy --with scikit-learn --with pyarrow --with duckdb python - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 2 in 109ms:
error: Could not acquire lock
  Caused by: Could not create temporary file
  Caused by: Read-only file system (os error 30) at path "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/.tmpl5FoT9"

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/environments-v2 -maxdepth 4 -type f -o -type l | sed -n '1,120p' && find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -maxdepth 2 -type d | sed -n '1,80p' && ls -la /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/interpreter-v4 | sed -n '1,100p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/RYRoBHbmfZS40tQI/numpy -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.so' | head && find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/interpreter-v4 -maxdepth 3 -type f -name python3 -o -name python | sed -n '1,40p' && du -sh /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 3248ms:
/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/RYRoBHbmfZS40tQI/numpy/linalg/_umath_linalg.cpython-311-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/interpreter-v4 -maxdepth 4 -ls | sed -n '1,120p' && ls -l /usr/bin/python3* | sed -n '1,80p' && file /users/a2andrad/venv/data-science/bin/python && ls -l /users/a2andrad/venv/data-science/bin/python*" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -type f -path '*/bin/python3.11' -o -type l -path '*/bin/python3.11' | sed -n '1,60p' && find /users/a2andrad/.local/share/uv -maxdepth 6 -type f -name 'python3.11' -o -type l -name 'python3.11' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,60p' && find /users/a2andrad/.local -maxdepth 5 -type f -name 'python3.11' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,60p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin/python3.11
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "file /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin/python3.11 && /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin/python3.11 -c 'import sys; print(sys.version)' && sed -n '1,20p' /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/environments-v2/7fe2c1040d4a8780/488b547ed3ce89e7" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 127 in 54ms:
/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin/python3.11: broken symbolic link to python
/bin/bash: line 1: /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin/python3.11: No such file or directory

exec
/bin/bash -lc "ls -l /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nd8pRGiLVTMoYgU5/bin /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/XQMM7ZgZ-JadMC8A/bin /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/zt2jrZvxRcumjutg/bin | sed -n '1,120p' && for f in /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/environments-v2/7fe2c1040d4a8780/*; do echo \""'$f"; sed -n '"'1,20p' \""'$f"; done' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 4 in 84ms:
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sed: read error on /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/environments-v2/7fe2c1040d4a8780/0524dbcdad743269: Is a directory
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sed: read error on /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/environments-v2/7fe2c1040d4a8780/488b547ed3ce89e7: Is a directory
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.local/share/uv -maxdepth 8 -ls 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,200p' && find /users -xdev -type f -name python3.11 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,80p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
exec
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exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /opt /usr/local /workspace /tmp -type f -name 'python3.11' -o -type l -name 'python3.11' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p' && find /users/a2andrad/scratch -maxdepth 8 -type f -path '*/bin/python3.11' -o -type l -path '*/bin/python3.11' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 4382ms:
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/sage4-gnu3-public-production-runtime-v1/sage4-gnu3-7pt-mirrored-v1/runner-workspace/.venv/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/sage4-gnu3-public-production-runtime-v2/sage4-gnu3-7pt-mirrored-v1/runner-workspace/.venv/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/backgammon-explainer-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1/.venv/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python3.11
/users/a2andrad/scratch/sage4-gnu3-public-production-runtime-v3/sage4-gnu3-7pt-mirrored-v1/runner-workspace/.venv/bin/python3.11

exec
/bin/bash -lc "PYTHONPATH=src /users/a2andrad/scratch/backgammon-explainer-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1/.venv/bin/python - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json, platform
mods={}
for name in ('numpy','scipy','sklearn','pyarrow','duckdb','pytest'):
 try:
  m=__import__(name); mods[name]=getattr(m,'__version__','present')
 except Exception as exc: mods[name]=type(exc).__name__+':'+str(exc)
print(platform.python_version(),json.dumps(mods,sort_keys=True))
from backgammon_explainer.canonical_analysis import stable_json
from backgammon_explainer.position_value_modeling import all_registry_descriptors
r=all_registry_descriptors()
print('direct_registry_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json(r['direct_cubeful']).encode()).hexdigest())
print('context_order_sha256', hashlib.sha256(stable_json([x['feature_id'] for x in r['direct_cubeful']['ordered_features'][351:]]).encode()).hexdigest())
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 198ms:
3.13.5 {"duckdb": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'duckdb'", "numpy": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'numpy'", "pyarrow": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'pyarrow'", "pytest": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'pytest'", "scipy": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'scipy'", "sklearn": "ModuleNotFoundError:No module named 'sklearn'"}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 8, in <module>
  File "/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/src/backgammon_explainer/canonical_analysis.py", line 23, in <module>
    import numpy as np
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'for p in /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python3.11 /users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python3.11 /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python3.11; do ls -l "$p"; file -L "$p"; done' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 206ms:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 22058 22058 7 Aug 19 23:54 /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python3.11 -> python3
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python3.11: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=436dddfb44021a98adb8a0b1f8e78dbfaa2f8dc3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
lrwxrwxrwx 1 22058 22058 7 Aug 19 20:22 /users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python3.11 -> python3
/users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python3.11: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=436dddfb44021a98adb8a0b1f8e78dbfaa2f8dc3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
lrwxrwxrwx 1 22058 22058 7 Aug 22 18:00 /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python3.11 -> python3
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python3.11: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=436dddfb44021a98adb8a0b1f8e78dbfaa2f8dc3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'for p in /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python /users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python /users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python; do "$p" - <<'"'PY'
import sys
print(sys.executable,sys.version)
for x in ('numpy','scipy','sklearn','pyarrow','duckdb','pytest'):
 try:
  m=__import__(x); print(x,getattr(m,'__version__','present'))
 except Exception as e: print(x,'NO')
PY
done" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 148ms:
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-runner-fix-test-venv-v2/bin/python 3.13.5 (main, Jun 13 2026, 14:18:01) [GCC 14.2.0]
numpy NO
scipy NO
sklearn NO
pyarrow NO
duckdb NO
pytest NO
/users/a2andrad/scratch/engine-kit-v0.4.0-verify-20260820T002153Z/bin/python 3.13.5 (main, Jun 13 2026, 14:18:01) [GCC 14.2.0]
numpy NO
scipy NO
sklearn NO
pyarrow NO
duckdb NO
pytest NO
/users/a2andrad/scratch/retcorpus-k001-sage-gnu-hardening-test-venv-v1/bin/python 3.13.5 (main, Jun 13 2026, 14:18:01) [GCC 14.2.0]
numpy NO
scipy NO
sklearn NO
pyarrow NO
duckdb NO
pytest NO

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad /opt /usr/local /tmp -xdev \\( -type f -o -type l \\) -name 'python3.11' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 -r file -L | rg -v 'symbolic link|broken' | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages /usr/local/lib/python3.13 /usr/local/lib/python3.11 -maxdepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,160p' && ldconfig -p | rg 'libpython3\\.11|libpython3\\.1' | sed -n '1,80p' && find /usr -xdev -type f -name 'libpython3.11.so*' 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,80p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
exec
/bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'def stable_json' src/backgammon_explainer/canonical_analysis.py && sed -n '30,60p' src/backgammon_explainer/canonical_analysis.py && jq '.direct_cubeful' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json > /tmp/direct.json && sha256sum /tmp/direct.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 318ms:
87:def stable_json(value: Any, *, pretty: bool = False) -> str:
CONTRACT_VERSION = "canonical-analysis-parquet-v1"
CONTEXT_ENCODING_VERSION = "occurrence-context-player-on-roll-v1"

CANONICAL_TABLE_NAMES = (
    "positions",
    "games",
    "source_occurrences",
    "occurrence_contexts",
    "decisions",
    "candidates",
    "evaluations",
    "cube_occurrences",
    "cube_actions",
    "exclusions",
)


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class CanonicalAnalysisStorageProfile:
    """Physical Parquet choices for the commissioned Canonical Analysis profile."""

    profile_id: str
    compression: str
    use_dictionary: bool
    max_row_group_rows: int
    parquet_files: tuple[str, ...]

    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        return {
            "profile_id": self.profile_id,
            "compression": self.compression,
0ddeab0c859ca07faaea5835d3aed1c4eeec56450af67fc8162656ec283cb196  /tmp/direct.json

exec
/bin/bash -lc "sed -n '82,100p' src/backgammon_explainer/canonical_analysis.py && /usr/bin/python3 - <<'PY'
import json,hashlib
x=json.load(open('artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling/registries.json'))
s=lambda v:json.dumps(v,sort_keys=True,separators=(',',':'),ensure_ascii=False)
print(hashlib.sha256(s(x['direct_cubeful']).encode()).hexdigest())
print(hashlib.sha256(s([f['feature_id'] for f in x['direct_cubeful']['ordered_features'][351:]]).encode()).hexdigest())
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 150ms:
    "feature_contribution",
    "explanation_text",
)


def stable_json(value: Any, *, pretty: bool = False) -> str:
    if pretty:
        return json.dumps(value, indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n"
    return json.dumps(value, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=False)


def sha256_file(path: Path) -> str:
    digest = hashlib.sha256()
    with path.open("rb") as source:
        for chunk in iter(lambda: source.read(1024 * 1024), b""):
            digest.update(chunk)
    return digest.hexdigest()


b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e
ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%f\\n' | sort && jq '{python,numpy,scipy,sklearn,pyarrow,duckdb,host,platform}' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/runtime-and-resources.json 2>/dev/null || true && rg -n 'numpy|scipy|scikit|python_version|pyarrow|duckdb' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model -g '*.json' | sed -n '1,100p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 92ms:
SHA256SUMS
actual-4ply-transfer.json
explanation-evidence.json
frozen-authorities.json
inner-selection.json
manifest.json
models.json
protocol-tests.json
protocol.md
reference-reproduction.json
result-summary.json
runtime-resources.json
self-verification.json
shallow-holdout.json
training-cache.json
zero-activity-proof.json

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '.' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/runtime-resources.json | sed -n '1,240p' && jq '.environment // .software_environment // empty' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/frozen-authorities.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 69ms:
{
  "version": "explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model-runtime-v1",
  "status": "PASS",
  "resource_policy": "Every material shared-host cache, training, refinement, shallow scoring, and actual-4ply scoring command ran with nice +10.",
  "environment": {
    "openblas_threads": 20,
    "material_batch_size": 32768,
    "cache_workers": 10,
    "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer with float64 retained inference and reconstruction"
  },
  "elapsed_seconds": {
    "reference_reproduction": 172.3730764389038,
    "training_cache": 99.77751445770264,
    "inner_selection": 5701.656878709793,
    "initial_final_fit": 11034.378899335861,
    "addeq_training_only_convergence_repair": 3758.271849870682,
    "accepted_shallow_holdout": 367.3314731121063
  },
  "cache": {
    "location": "/users/a2andrad/scratch/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-cache",
    "committed": false,
    "filesystem_usage_gib_approx": 6.1,
    "retained_after_completion": false,
    "recovery": "Rebuild from frozen existing source rows with the committed cache phase and training-cache.json identities."
  }
}

exec
/bin/bash -lc "nproc && lscpu | sed -n '1,36p' && jq '{starting_heads,source_authorities,split_and_population,models,software}' artifacts/development/explainer-k002-constrained-additive-position-model/frozen-authorities.json | sed -n '1,300p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 155ms:
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Vulnerability Gather data sampling:      Not affected
Vulnerability Indirect target selection: Not affected
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  "software": null
}

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'mkdir -p ../runtime/uv-cache ../runtime/venv && UV_CACHE_DIR=../runtime/uv-cache uv python install 3.11' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 2 in 151ms:
error: failed to create directory `/users/a2andrad/.local/share/uv/python`: Read-only file system (os error 30)

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'UV_CACHE_DIR=../runtime/uv-cache UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=../runtime/uv-python uv python install 3.11' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 8857ms:
error: Failed to install cpython-3.11.15-linux-x86_64-gnu
  Caused by: Request failed after 3 retries in 8.5s
  Caused by: Failed to download https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20260718/cpython-3.11.15%2B20260718-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only_stripped.tar.gz
  Caused by: error sending request for url (https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20260718/cpython-3.11.15%2B20260718-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-install_only_stripped.tar.gz)
  Caused by: client error (Connect)
  Caused by: dns error
  Caused by: failed to lookup address information: Temporary failure in name resolution

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -type f \\( -name 'libpython3.11.so*' -o -name 'python3.11' -o -name 'python' \\) -ls | sed -n '1,120p' && find /users/a2andrad/scratch -type f \\( -name 'libpython3.11.so*' -o -name 'python3.11' \\) -ls 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 6648ms:
exec
/bin/bash -lc "find /var/cache/apt/archives /tmp -maxdepth 3 -type f \\( -name 'python3.11*' -o -name 'python-build-standalone*' -o -name 'cpython-3.11*' \\) 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p' && find /users/a2andrad -maxdepth 8 -type f \\( -name 'Python-3.11*.tgz' -o -name 'cpython-3.11*.tar.gz' -o -name 'python-3.11*.tar.zst' \\) 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 119102ms:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
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/bin/bash -lc "ls /var/cache/apt/archives/*python3.11* /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.11* 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,120p' && dpkg-deb -I /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.11-minimal_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb | sed -n '1,100p'" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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exec
/bin/bash -lc 'mkdir -p ../runtime/python311 && for deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.11-minimal_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.11-stdlib_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.11_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.11-minimal_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.11_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.11-venv_3.11.2-6_amd64.deb; do dpkg-deb -x "$deb" ../runtime/python311; done
PYTHONHOME=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr) ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11 - <<'"'PY'
import sys,hashlib,json
print(sys.version)
print(sys.prefix)
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 2880ms:
3.11.2 (main, Mar 13 2023, 12:18:29) [GCC 12.2.0]
/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/runtime/python311/usr

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/RYRoBHbmfZS40tQI:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/H_TvSJ4EzPM8L7A4:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/qYLNVds7OwQuj61y:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/onOF2j9qL3c3-9tq:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/nqGdsEyN-7ROEykd:/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/Q9__Q9Hix9te-7kt
PYTHONHOME=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr) PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS "$PY311" - <<'"'PY'
import json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 4498ms:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/__init__.py", line 70, in <module>
    from sklearn.base import clone  # noqa: E402
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/base.py", line 20, in <module>
    from sklearn.utils._metadata_requests import _MetadataRequester, _routing_enabled
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/utils/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from sklearn.utils._chunking import gen_batches, gen_even_slices
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/utils/_chunking.py", line 11, in <module>
    from sklearn.utils._param_validation import Interval, validate_params
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/utils/_param_validation.py", line 17, in <module>
    from sklearn.utils.validation import _is_arraylike_not_scalar
  File "/users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0/IwQ5dl34rYH-Q7-d/sklearn/utils/validation.py", line 14, in <module>
    import narwhals.stable.v2 as nw
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'narwhals'

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr) PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS "$PY311" - <<'"'PY'
import json, platform
import numpy, scipy, sklearn, pyarrow, duckdb
print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'numpy':numpy.__version__,'scipy':scipy.__version__,'sklearn':sklearn.__version__,'pyarrow':pyarrow.__version__,'duckdb':duckdb.__version__},sort_keys=True))
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 9181ms:
{"duckdb": "1.5.5", "numpy": "2.4.6", "pyarrow": "25.0.1", "python": "3.11.2", "scipy": "1.17.1", "sklearn": "1.9.0"}

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docs/deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.md:61:completeness, and never appear in `evaluation-rows.jsonl`. Every accepted row
config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:31:  "acquired_package": {
config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:35:    "package_identity_sha256": "e868a584c3bfb4a562ac43ca5b86dd1a1860ebeb8336c308f4da0cc6dc1ceeb3",
config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:36:    "package_id": "deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5",
config/modeling/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.json:37:    "quarantine_policy": "only evaluation-rows.jsonl is a modeling input; native-evidence and quarantined state trees are not read"
config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v1.json:191:    "required_files": ["manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "native-evidence.jsonl", "evaluation-rows.jsonl"],
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_acquisition.py:56:PACKAGE_SCHEMA_V3 = "explainer-independent-deep-4ply-package-v3"
docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-4ply-modeling-v1.md:21:The acquired package `e868a584…1ceeb3` was verified before consumption. Only `evaluation-rows.jsonl` was read: 18,817 candidates, 4,011 decisions, 124 complete games/source matches, 20 diversity groups, actual 4-ply labels only. All targets reproduce exactly from the six probabilities, candidate ranks are complete, features are finite, provenance is globally disjoint from the entire frozen population, and no quarantine or native-evidence rows entered modeling. The deterministic dataset identity is `677e9c5b…793dcd3`; its complete decision/group/candidate manifest is retained in `dataset-manifest.json`.
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:32:ACQUIRED = PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5"
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:34:    "acquired-500": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-ea013169c394634f",
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:35:    "acquired-1000": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-f0c24d1afa46c6cf",
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:36:    "acquired-2000": PACKAGE_ROOT / "deep-4ply-package-v3-ebb9133d1031b97b",
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:77:            acquired_package=ACQUIRED,
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:120:            acquired_package=ACQUIRED,
scripts/run_shallow_to_deep.py:148:            acquired_package=ACQUIRED,
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:446:    acquired_package: Path,
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:619:    acquired_manifest = _json(acquired_package / "manifest.json")
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:647:            "manifest_sha256": sha256_file(acquired_package / "manifest.json"),
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:1301:    acquired_package: Path,
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:1372:        acquired_package=acquired_package,
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:1504:    acquired_package: Path,
src/backgammon_explainer/shallow_to_deep.py:1523:    acquired, acquired_manifest = load_acquired_population(acquired_package)
scripts/verify_deep_4ply_acquisition.py:440:                "evaluation-rows.jsonl": jsonl_bytes(rows),
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:65:EXPECTED_PACKAGE_IDENTITY = "e868a584c3bfb4a562ac43ca5b86dd1a1860ebeb8336c308f4da0cc6dc1ceeb3"
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:66:EXPECTED_PACKAGE_ID = "deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5"
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:105:    acquired_package: Path,
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:135:    package = verify_acquisition_package(acquired_package)
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:138:    acquired_manifest = _json(acquired_package / "manifest.json")
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:139:    if acquired_package.name != EXPECTED_PACKAGE_ID or acquired_manifest.get("package_identity_sha256") != EXPECTED_PACKAGE_IDENTITY:
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:149:        "acquired_package": package,
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:307:    payload_path = package / "evaluation-rows.jsonl"
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1066:            "acquired_package_identity_sha256": EXPECTED_PACKAGE_IDENTITY,
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1172:    acquired_package: Path,
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1188:        acquired_package=acquired_package,
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1196:    acquired, dataset_manifest = load_acquired_population(acquired_package)
src/backgammon_explainer/deep_4ply_modeling.py:1254:                "acquired_package_identity_sha256": EXPECTED_PACKAGE_IDENTITY,
docs/modeling/feature-v2-deep-label-data-efficiency-v1.md:17:- acquired package: `e868a584c3bfb4a562ac43ca5b86dd1a1860ebeb8336c308f4da0cc6dc1ceeb3`
scripts/produce_strict_clean_deep_4ply.py:911:        {"native-evidence.jsonl": jsonl_bytes(native), "evaluation-rows.jsonl": jsonl_bytes(rows)},
config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v2.json:288:      "evaluation-rows.jsonl"
config/data_acquisition/explainer-feature-v2-deep-4ply-acquisition-v3.json:298:    "package_naming": "deep-4ply-package-v3-<first16(package_identity_sha256)>",
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scripts/run_deep_4ply_modeling.py:28:    / "deep-4ply-acquisition/packages/deep-4ply-package-v3-e868a584c3bfb4a5"
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def _iter_batches(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, checkpoint: str, width: int,
    held_out_fold: int | None = None, train: bool = True, batch_size: int = 8192,
) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
    for part in parts:
        indexes = np.flatnonzero(_row_mask(part, checkpoint, held_out_fold, train))
        for start in range(0, len(indexes), batch_size):
            chosen = indexes[start : start + batch_size]
            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:width, chosen].T, dtype=float), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=float)


@dataclass
class Transform:
    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
    mean: np.ndarray
    scale: np.ndarray
    knots: np.ndarray | None

    @property
    def additive(self) -> bool:
        return self.knots is not None

    @property
    def basis_width(self) -> int:
        return len(self.feature_ids) * (4 if self.additive else 1)

    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        z = (np.asarray(x, dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
        if self.knots is None:
            return z
        output = np.empty((len(z), len(self.feature_ids), 4), dtype=float)
        output[:, :, 0] = z
        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)

    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        """Numerically bounded training basis; retained inference stays float64."""
        mean = self.mean.astype(np.float32); scale = self.scale.astype(np.float32)
        z = (np.asarray(x, dtype=np.float32) - mean) / scale
        if self.knots is None:
            return z
        knots = self.knots.astype(np.float32)
        output = np.empty((len(z), len(self.feature_ids), 4), dtype=np.float32)
        output[:, :, 0] = z
        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - knots[None, :, :], np.float32(0.0))
        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)

    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        return {
            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES) if self.additive else [],
            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist() if self.knots is not None else [],
            "basis_order": "feature-major: standardized linear, then max(z-q25,0), max(z-q50,0), max(z-q75,0)" if self.additive else "standardized linear",
            "interactions": 0,
        }


def fit_transform(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, checkpoint: str, feature_set: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, additive: bool,
) -> Transform:
    width = EXPECTED_COUNTS[feature_set]
    total = 0
    sums = np.zeros(width)
    squares = np.zeros(width)
    for x, _ in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=width, held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True):
        total += len(x); sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float); squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
    mean = sums / total
    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
    knots = None
    if additive:
        raw_knots = np.empty((width, 3))
        for feature in range(width):
            columns = []
            for part in parts:
                mask = _row_mask(part, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
                columns.append(np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, mask]))
            raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
        knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
    return Transform(
        tuple(item.feature_id for item in REGISTRIES[feature_set]), mean, scale, knots,
    )


@dataclass
class FrozenModel:
    family: str
    feature_set: str
    final, gradient = objective(np.asarray(result.x))
    parameter = np.asarray(result.x).reshape(outputs, width + 1)
    common = {
        "algorithm": "scipy-L-BFGS-B deterministic streaming Ridge objective and exact gradient",
        "objective": "0.5 * sum squared error + 0.5 * alpha * squared coefficient norm",
        "success": bool(result.success), "status": int(result.status), "message": str(result.message),
        "iterations": int(result.nit), "function_evaluations": int(result.nfev),
        "streaming_objective_calls_including_final_audit": calls,
        "final_joint_scaled_objective": float(final), "maximum_absolute_joint_scaled_gradient": float(np.max(np.abs(gradient))),
        "training_rows": rows, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index : index + 1, :-1].copy(), parameter[index : index + 1, -1].copy(), {**common, "alpha": alpha})
        for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas)
    ]


def _adam_step(
    parameter: np.ndarray, gradient: np.ndarray, first: np.ndarray,
    second: np.ndarray, step: int, learning_rate: float,
) -> float:
    first *= 0.9; first += 0.1 * gradient
    second *= 0.999; second += 0.001 * np.square(gradient)
    adjusted = learning_rate * (first / (1.0 - 0.9 ** step)) / (
        np.sqrt(second / (1.0 - 0.999 ** step)) + 1e-8
    )
    parameter -= adjusted
    return float(np.max(np.abs(adjusted)))


def _fit_hierarchy_adam(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, lambdas: Sequence[float], epochs: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    """Deterministic mini-batch optimizer for the exact frozen hierarchy loss."""

    outputs, width = 5 * len(lambdas), transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    success_sum = np.zeros(5); total_sum = np.zeros(5)
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
        success_sum += success.sum(axis=0); total_sum += (success + failure).sum(axis=0)
    base = np.clip(success_sum / total_sum, 1e-8, 1.0 - 1e-8)
    parameter = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1), dtype=np.float32)
    for index in range(len(lambdas)):
        parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, -1] = np.log(base / (1.0 - base))
    first = np.zeros_like(parameter); second = np.zeros_like(parameter)
    step = 0; epoch_records = []; started = time.time()
    learning_rate = 0.012 if transform.additive else 0.02
    for epoch in range(epochs):
        epoch_loss = 0.0; epoch_mass = 0; maximum_update = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis_float32(x)
            success, failure = conditional_masses(y)
            success = np.tile(success, (1, len(lambdas))).astype(np.float32)
            failure = np.tile(failure, (1, len(lambdas))).astype(np.float32)
            eta = basis @ parameter[:, :-1].T + parameter[:, -1]
            epoch_loss += float(np.sum(success * np.logaddexp(0.0, -eta) + failure * np.logaddexp(0.0, eta)))
            epoch_mass += len(x)
            residual = (success + failure) / (1.0 + np.exp(-np.clip(eta, -30.0, 30.0))) - success
            gradient = np.column_stack((residual.T @ basis / len(x), residual.mean(axis=0)))
            for index, value in enumerate(lambdas):
                selected = slice(index * 5, (index + 1) * 5)
                gradient[selected, :-1] += value * parameter[selected, :-1]
            step += 1
            # A partition's short terminal batch receives proportionally less
            # influence than a full batch, preserving source-row weighting.
            batch_lr = learning_rate * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / batch_size)
            maximum_update = max(maximum_update, _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first, second, step, batch_lr))
        epoch_records.append({
            "epoch": epoch + 1,
            "online_mean_joint_soft_binomial_loss": epoch_loss / epoch_mass,
            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": maximum_update,
        })
    common = {
        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam",
        "objective": "mean source-row soft-binomial cross entropy + lambda/2 * squared coefficient norm",
        "epochs": epochs, "batch_size": batch_size, "initial_learning_rate": learning_rate,
        "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75, "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999,
        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
        "success": True, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, :-1].astype(float), parameter[index * 5 : (index + 1) * 5, -1].astype(float), {**common, "lambda": value, "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference"})
        for index, value in enumerate(lambdas)
    ]


def _fit_ridge_adam(
    parts: Sequence[CachePart], transform: Transform, *, checkpoint: str,
    held_out_fold: int | None, alphas: Sequence[float], epochs: int,
    batch_size: int,
) -> list[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, dict[str, Any]]]:
    """Deterministically optimize the standard Ridge objective in batches."""

    outputs, width = len(alphas), transform.basis_width
    rows = _count_rows(parts, checkpoint, held_out_fold, True)
    target_sum = 0.0
    for _, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
        target_sum += float(y[:, 5].sum())
    parameter = np.zeros((outputs, width + 1), dtype=np.float32); parameter[:, -1] = target_sum / rows
    first = np.zeros_like(parameter); second = np.zeros_like(parameter)
    step = 0; epoch_records = []; started = time.time(); learning_rate = 0.015
    for epoch in range(epochs):
        epoch_sse = 0.0; epoch_rows = 0; maximum_update = 0.0
        for x, y in _iter_batches(parts, checkpoint=checkpoint, width=len(transform.feature_ids), held_out_fold=held_out_fold, train=True, batch_size=batch_size):
            basis = transform.basis_float32(x)
            residual = basis @ parameter[:, :-1].T + parameter[:, -1] - y[:, 5, None]
            epoch_sse += float(np.square(residual).sum()); epoch_rows += len(x)
            gradient = np.column_stack((residual.T @ basis / len(x), residual.mean(axis=0)))
            for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas):
                gradient[index, :-1] += (alpha / rows) * parameter[index, :-1]
            step += 1
            batch_lr = learning_rate * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / batch_size)
            maximum_update = max(maximum_update, _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first, second, step, batch_lr))
        epoch_records.append({
            "epoch": epoch + 1, "online_rmse": math.sqrt(epoch_sse / (epoch_rows * outputs)),
            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": maximum_update,
        })
    common = {
        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
        "objective": "0.5 * sum squared error + 0.5 * alpha * squared coefficient norm",
        "epochs": epochs, "batch_size": batch_size, "initial_learning_rate": learning_rate,
        "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75, "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999,
        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
        "success": True, "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
    }
    return [
        (parameter[index : index + 1, :-1].astype(float), parameter[index : index + 1, -1].astype(float), {**common, "alpha": alpha, "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference"})
        for index, alpha in enumerate(alphas)
    ]


class HierarchyMetrics:

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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.

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+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
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+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
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+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
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+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
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+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
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+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
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+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
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+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
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+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
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+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
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+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
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+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
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+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
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diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
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+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e18a0bed81d19098812dd0e91aab11e510a82f32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,856 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload

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/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
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+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e18a0bed81d19098812dd0e91aab11e510a82f32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,856 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e18a0bed81d19098812dd0e91aab11e510a82f32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,856 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

apply patch
patch: completed
/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
"$PY311" -m py_compile src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
"$PY311" -m pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
"$PY311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py freeze
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git diff --stat' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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?? config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
?? docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
?? scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
?? src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
?? tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
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+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
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+  },
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+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
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+    "context_feature_count": 15,
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+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
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+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
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+        "features": "P3 position only",
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+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
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+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
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+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
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+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'git add config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/frozen-authorities.json && git commit -m "Freeze additive native Cubeful experiment" && git status --short --branch && git log -2 --oneline' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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[research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 cb9534f] Freeze additive native Cubeful experiment
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 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/frozen-authorities.json
 create mode 100644 config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
 create mode 100644 docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
 create mode 100644 scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
 create mode 100644 src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
## research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001...origin/research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 [ahead 1]
cb9534f Freeze additive native Cubeful experiment
58522bb Publish K002 HADD integration commissioning evidence

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

The unique accepted target, baseline, existing TRAIN/DEVELOPMENT/PROTECTED authority, model basis, singleton regularization, optimizer, bins, decision rule, software, and host limits are now frozen in commit cb9534f before any new development scoring.
  ✓ Read lane guidance, current handoff, and all referenced frozen protocols
  ✓ Inspect repositories and establish the exact frozen experiment baseline
  → Execute the experiment and produce durable artifacts
  • Run required tests and validate protocol/access compliance
  • Record results, update handoff, and create local Git commits
  • Verify final clean state and waiting-for-Research-Director status
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The prospective freeze is now durable in implementation commit `cb9534f`; no new DEVELOPMENT metrics and no protected rows were accessed before that commit. I’m starting the TRAIN-only cache build under nice +19 with one worker/thread. This phase reads only accepted training membership and will produce a deterministic cache manifest; it cannot inspect DEVELOPMENT or PROTECTED outcomes.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
exec nice -n 19 "$PY311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py cache' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 6 of 82 source partitions cached (about 434 MiB physical usage so far). HFCS load has fallen to about 6.3 and available memory is about 100 GiB, so the frozen one-worker run remains comfortably subordinate to shared workloads.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache is at 9/82 partitions (647 MiB physical) with no errors; host load remains near 6.2. The phase is I/O/feature-decoding bound and is preserving the frozen low-impact resource policy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 64ms:
12
861M	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 12/82 partitions (861 MiB physical). The deterministic identities are being recorded per partition; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
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+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache is at 15/82 partitions (about 1.1 GiB physical); host load is steady near 6.1 and the phase remains healthy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 64ms:
17
1.3G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 17/82 partitions (1.3 GiB physical), still error-free and TRAIN-only.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 64ms:
20
1.5G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache is at 25/82 partitions (1.8 GiB physical), with deterministic per-partition hashes continuing to accumulate.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 70ms:
28
2.0G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The TRAIN cache is at 31/82 partitions (2.3 GiB physical); host load remains moderate near 5.9.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache reached 37/82 partitions (2.6 GiB physical), with DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED still at zero access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 80ms:
42
3.1G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache passed halfway at 42/82 partitions (3.1 GiB physical), still clean and TRAIN-only.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 45/82 partitions (3.2 GiB physical); the date rollover has no effect on the frozen identities or running protocol.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 195ms:
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3.4G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The cache is at 48/82 partitions (3.4 GiB physical), error-free and still within the frozen TRAIN membership.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 80ms:
51
3.6G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true && uptime" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 90ms:
57
4.1G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 88ms:
60
4.3G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 63/82 partitions (4.4 GiB physical). Load briefly rose to about 7 on 64 host CPUs; memory/storage headroom and the lane’s one-worker nice +19 policy remain safe.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 98ms:
65
4.7G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 104ms:
68
4.9G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress reached 68/82 partitions (4.9 GiB physical); the run remains within the frozen headroom constraints.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
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+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
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+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 93ms:
74
5.3G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "find ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'partition-*' | wc -l && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache 2>/dev/null || true" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 91ms:
77
5.5G	../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Progress is 80/82 partitions (5.7 GiB physical). Only two partitions remain; host load is still modest relative to 64 CPUs.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
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+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The TRAIN cache completed successfully: exactly 20,981,224 accepted candidates across all 82 partitions, deterministic cache identity `586b8625…511a6e`, in 1,858 seconds. DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED access remain zero. I’m now starting the prospectively fixed 12-epoch two-candidate fit; it uses only this cache and will freeze both model identities before any DEVELOPMENT scoring.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
exec nice -n 19 "$PY311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py fit' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit is active with no errors. Its fresh preflight recorded about 101 GiB available RAM, 7.8 TiB free storage, 64-CPU affinity, load 5.7, and nice +19; all BLAS/OpenMP thread families remain capped at one. It is currently computing TRAIN-only scaling/quantile knots before optimizer epochs.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The TRAIN-only fit remains active and quiet; no DEVELOPMENT or protected artifact has been created.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues without an error signal; resource conditions and access boundaries remain unchanged.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
HFCS load has declined to about 4.6 with roughly 100 GiB available memory while the fit continues. The run remains well below shared-host capacity.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed fit is still active with no error output; all evaluation-access counters remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Training continues normally under the frozen optimizer; no adaptive change has been made.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit remains active; host load is about 5.4, and the model artifact has not yet been finalized.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization is continuing without errors or access-boundary changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit is still running cleanly; no outcome metrics have been inspected.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Optimization continues under the committed 12-epoch schedule; there has been no in-protocol adaptation.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
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@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At roughly eleven minutes, the fit remains healthy; HFCS load is near 5.0 and available memory near 100 GiB.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed fit is still active and error-free; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization continues with the committed basis, alpha, and epoch count unchanged.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit remains in progress without any error or policy exception; no model outcome has been exposed yet.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The prospectively fixed training job continues cleanly; shared-host headroom remains sufficient.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'uptime && test -f artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json && echo models-ready || echo fitting && du -sh ../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about sixteen minutes, the fit is still healthy; host load is near 5.2 and the cache remains 5.9 GiB physical.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen optimizer continues without errors or any evaluation access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active; the committed comparison and resource settings are unchanged.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues normally with no outcome output; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain at zero access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about twenty minutes, the fit remains healthy; load is about 4.7 and available memory about 100 GiB.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Training remains active and quiet; no DEVELOPMENT score or protected access exists yet.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed fit continues under nice +19 and one-thread math; all protocol gates remain intact.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At roughly twenty-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.2 and no model artifact has been finalized yet.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization continues cleanly; no results have been used to alter the frozen run.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The prospectively fixed two-model fit remains active; evaluation access is still zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues without errors, host-pressure alerts, or protocol changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only training remains healthy and unchanged; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED are still unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about thirty minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is about 4.5 with roughly 99 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed optimizer continues without error output or any adaptive intervention.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains in progress; model identities are not yet finalized and evaluation access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues normally under the frozen schedule; no policy gate has changed.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization is still active and clean; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about thirty-five minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.4 and the model artifact is still being computed.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only job continues without errors or evaluation access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Training remains active and unchanged under the committed 12-epoch protocol.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues cleanly; all outcome and protected-access boundaries remain intact.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about forty minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.5 with about 99 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed TRAIN-only computation continues with no error signal or protocol change.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting is still active; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED access remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The prospectively fixed optimizer continues normally and has not emitted any outcome metrics.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about forty-eight minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is about 4.4 and the final model artifact is not yet written.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization continues without errors, evaluation access, or protocol changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit remains active and quiet; all protected-access counters remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen optimizer continues normally; no model selection or parameter adaptation has occurred.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting is still active and error-free; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues under the exact committed settings with no host-pressure or protocol exception.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about fifty-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.6 with about 99 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization continues without errors or any evaluation access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed 12-epoch fit remains active and unchanged; no outcome has been used adaptively.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues cleanly; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain at zero access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains healthy under nice +19 and one-thread math; the protocol is unchanged.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At roughly one hour, the fit remains active and healthy; host load is near 5.3 and no evaluation artifact exists yet.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues without errors or adaptive intervention.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains in progress; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED access remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues cleanly with all model and access boundaries unchanged.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains active and error-free; no result has been inspected or acted upon.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues under the frozen 12-epoch schedule; evaluation access is still zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about sixty-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.3 with about 99 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only fit continues without errors or any change in authority.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains active; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED are still unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed model fit continues cleanly; no outcome-dependent action has been taken.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains healthy under the frozen resource and optimizer settings.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about sixty-nine minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.6 and no evaluation artifact exists.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen optimizer continues cleanly with evaluation access still at zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; no adaptive choice has been introduced.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without error output; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under nice +19 and the frozen one-thread math policy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about seventy-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.3 with roughly 100 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit continues cleanly; evaluation access remains zero and no protocol choice has changed.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains active and error-free under the committed schedule.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed model fit continues without errors; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains healthy; no outcome-dependent adaptation or access-boundary change has occurred.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about seventy-nine minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.1 and the final model artifact is still pending.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues cleanly with evaluation access still at zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; no adaptive intervention has been made.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without errors or access-boundary changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED are still unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about eighty-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.2 with roughly 100 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen optimizer continues cleanly; no evaluation score has been produced or inspected.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active under the exact committed settings; protected access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy and unchanged; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about eighty-nine minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.9 and the model artifact is still being finalized.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only fit continues without error output or any access-boundary change.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains active and unchanged; no outcome-dependent decision has been made.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues cleanly; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED access remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains healthy under the exact frozen optimizer and resource policy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about ninety-four minutes, the fit remains healthy; load is near 4.5 with roughly 100 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues without errors or evaluation access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; no adaptive action has been taken.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues cleanly; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under nice +19 and the frozen one-thread policy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about ninety-nine minutes, the fit remains healthy; load briefly rose to about 6.3 on 64 CPUs, still with substantial headroom.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen optimizer continues without errors, evaluation access, or protocol adaptation.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; protected access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues cleanly; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED are still unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under the exact frozen resource and model settings.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fit continues without error output or any outcome-dependent action.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about 105 minutes, the fit remains healthy. Host load is 8.7 on 64 CPUs with roughly 100 GiB available memory; nice +19 ensures the lane yields to any competing work.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues cleanly; evaluation access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; no adaptive intervention has occurred.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without errors; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under the frozen schedule and resource limits.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit continues cleanly; no outcome metric has been exposed or used.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about 111 minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load has returned near 5.1 and the model artifact is still pending.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed TRAIN-only optimizer continues without errors or evaluation access.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; protected access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit continues cleanly under the exact committed model and resource settings.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED remain unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without error output or any adaptive action.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about 117 minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.2 with roughly 100 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues cleanly; evaluation access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; no outcome-dependent decision has been made.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without errors; DEVELOPMENT and PROTECTED are still unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under nice +19 and the frozen one-thread policy.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At roughly two hours, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 4.9 and the final model artifact is still pending.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen TRAIN-only optimizer continues cleanly without evaluation access or adaptation.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only fitting remains active and unchanged; protected access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed fit continues without errors or protocol changes; DEVELOPMENT remains unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
TRAIN-only optimization remains healthy under the exact frozen settings; no outcome has been inspected.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit continues cleanly; all evaluation-access counters remain zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
At about 129 minutes, the fit remains healthy; host load is near 5.1 with roughly 100 GiB available memory.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The committed TRAIN-only optimizer continues without errors or adaptive changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

 succeeded in 7878975ms:
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+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The frozen fit completed successfully in 7,868 seconds. Both models are now durable with deterministic package identity `21763957…e9af8`; the artifact explicitly records zero DEVELOPMENT and zero PROTECTED accesses. I’m validating reconstruction on TRAIN-only cached rows and will commit the cache/model identities before opening DEVELOPMENT.
exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '{status,deterministic_identity_sha256,elapsed_seconds,development_accesses,protected_accesses,models:[.models[]|{model_id,model_identity_sha256,alpha,training_checkpoint,feature_count:(.transform.feature_ids|length),basis_width:(.coefficients|length),final_epoch:(.optimizer.epoch_records[-1])}]}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json
PY311="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
"$PY311" - <<'"'PY'
import numpy as np
from pathlib import Path
from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import load_native_models
models=load_native_models(Path('artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json'))
x=np.load('../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache/partition-000/x_t.npy',mmap_mode='r')[:,:3].T
for m in models:
 p=m.predict(x); c=m.grouped_contributions(x)
 print(m.model_id,m.descriptor()['model_identity_sha256'],float(np.max(np.abs(p-(c.sum(axis=1)+m.intercept)))))
PY
git diff --check
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'git add artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/training-cache.json && git commit -m "Freeze native Cubeful candidate models" && git status --short --branch && git log -3 --oneline' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 230ms:
[research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 8eacfc0] Freeze native Cubeful candidate models
 3 files changed, 9651 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/training-cache.json
## research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001...origin/research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 [ahead 2]
8eacfc0 Freeze native Cubeful candidate models
cb9534f Freeze additive native Cubeful experiment
58522bb Publish K002 HADD integration commissioning evidence

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The two immutable candidate identities and TRAIN evidence are now committed in `8eacfc0`; reconstruction errors on cached TRAIN rows are below `1.0e-15`. I’m opening DEVELOPMENT once for the predeclared baseline reproduction, global/segment/fold scoring, and exact contribution evidence. PROTECTED remains unopened.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'PY311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
PKGS=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$PKGS
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
exec nice -n 19 "$PY311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py score-development' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
DEVELOPMENT scoring is active without errors under a fresh passing preflight. It is streaming the fixed holdout once and accumulating all three models, four complete-game folds, and every predeclared factual segment together.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed DEVELOPMENT pass continues cleanly; PROTECTED access is still zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
DEVELOPMENT scoring remains active and unchanged; no protected row has been read.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The single fixed DEVELOPMENT stream continues without errors or protocol changes.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
DEVELOPMENT scoring remains healthy; all metrics and contribution checks are being accumulated in the same predeclared pass.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The DEVELOPMENT pass continues cleanly; protected access remains zero.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The fixed DEVELOPMENT evaluation remains active without error output or any adaptive action.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
DEVELOPMENT scoring continues under the frozen settings; PROTECTED remains unopened.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The single fixed DEVELOPMENT stream remains healthy and unchanged; no protected row has been accessed.
 succeeded in 552508ms:
{
  "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": {
    "bias": 6.308701391150029e-17,
    "correlation": 1.4432899320127035e-15,
    "mae": 4.163336342344337e-16,
    "r2": 2.220446049250313e-16,
    "rmse": 0.0
  },
  "access": "DEVELOPMENT",
  "candidates": 2094039,
  "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": "d67c4948cbf520362f39c239b0b8f1e137d6773e794740b03c7cd96872499906",
  "decisions": 100015,
  "elapsed_seconds": 544.3376486301422,
  "fold_seed": 20260823,
  "fold_version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
  "identity_sha256": "dca88426d76d75009734896ecd8bdcada5f66cea37e7e52c012565404a107801",
  "metrics": {
    "accepted_baseline": {
      "development_complete_game_folds": {
        "0": {
          "bias": -0.0053831602967756255,
          "correlation": 0.8979786695873949,
          "mae": 0.21817378024391548,
          "r2": 0.8062644219024007,
          "rmse": 0.2929033905936714,
          "rows": 547986
        },
        "1": {
          "bias": -0.0003651832874939045,
          "correlation": 0.8922181429083157,
          "mae": 0.22151136084351272,
          "r2": 0.7960500663896071,
          "rmse": 0.29782774943192913,
          "rows": 512646
        },
        "2": {
          "bias": 0.0018303512040718974,
          "correlation": 0.8904172658119984,
          "mae": 0.2209816250027305,
          "r2": 0.7928343194500515,
          "rmse": 0.296103799843644,
          "rows": 513519
        },
        "3": {
          "bias": 0.0038984750139986124,
          "correlation": 0.8876661369143517,
          "mae": 0.22557033582516134,
          "r2": 0.7879050660555496,
          "rmse": 0.30161431819618206,
          "rows": 519888
        }
      },
      "global": {
        "bias": -8.138135533672954e-05,
        "correlation": 0.8922126398847771,
        "mae": 0.2215157712310875,
        "r2": 0.7960430066130013,
        "rmse": 0.29707332956861665,
        "rows": 2094039
      },
      "segments": {
        "crawford/false": {
          "bias": -8.138135533672954e-05,
          "correlation": 0.8922126398847771,
          "mae": 0.2215157712310875,
          "r2": 0.7960430066130013,
          "rmse": 0.29707332956861665,
          "rows": 2094039
        },
        "cube_ownership/centered": {
          "bias": -0.00231085171587571,
          "correlation": 0.806437754921452,
          "mae": 0.16494288376565877,
          "r2": 0.6464515070159514,
          "rmse": 0.22694923918322943,
          "rows": 940545
        },
        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": {
          "bias": 0.0033035058303915563,
          "correlation": 0.8657801815896241,
          "mae": 0.2792004545976608,
          "r2": 0.7468656132223841,
          "rmse": 0.3570707820415382,
          "rows": 595172
        },
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+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '{identity_sha256,status,candidates,decisions,protected_accesses,baseline_repro:.accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error,models:(.metrics|to_entries|map({model:.key,global:.value.global,folds:(.value.development_complete_game_folds|to_entries|map({fold:.key,rmse:.value.rmse,mae:.value.mae,bias:.value.bias}))}))}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json && jq '{status,identity_sha256,global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error,models:(.models|to_entries|map({model:.key,identity:.value.model_identity_sha256,position_error:.value.position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error,contrast_error:.value.a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error}))}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json && git status --short" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 274ms:
{
  "identity_sha256": "dca88426d76d75009734896ecd8bdcada5f66cea37e7e52c012565404a107801",
  "status": "PASS",
  "candidates": 2094039,
  "decisions": 100015,
  "protected_accesses": 0,
  "baseline_repro": {
    "bias": 6.308701391150029E-17,
    "correlation": 1.4432899320127035E-15,
    "mae": 4.163336342344337E-16,
    "r2": 2.220446049250313E-16,
    "rmse": 0.0
  },
  "models": [
    {
      "model": "accepted_baseline",
      "global": {
        "bias": -0.00008138135533672954,
        "correlation": 0.8922126398847771,
        "mae": 0.2215157712310875,
        "r2": 0.7960430066130013,
        "rmse": 0.29707332956861665,
        "rows": 2094039
      },
      "folds": [
        {
          "fold": "0",
          "rmse": 0.2929033905936714,
          "mae": 0.21817378024391548,
          "bias": -0.0053831602967756255
        },
        {
          "fold": "1",
          "rmse": 0.29782774943192913,
          "mae": 0.22151136084351272,
          "bias": -0.0003651832874939045
        },
        {
          "fold": "2",
          "rmse": 0.296103799843644,
          "mae": 0.2209816250027305,
          "bias": 0.0018303512040718974
        },
        {
          "fold": "3",
          "rmse": 0.30161431819618206,
          "mae": 0.22557033582516134,
          "bias": 0.0038984750139986124
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "model": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
      "global": {
        "bias": -0.012318085158239974,
        "correlation": 0.8808824965691597,
        "mae": 0.22984733691163486,
        "r2": 0.7739085780834868,
        "rmse": 0.312778149409631,
        "rows": 2094039
      },
      "folds": [
        {
          "fold": "0",
          "rmse": 0.32538527151925006,
          "mae": 0.2316623917045464,
          "bias": -0.01068094220824511
        },
        {
          "fold": "1",
          "rmse": 0.3092624236471884,
          "mae": 0.22904512596535997,
          "bias": -0.014697618036926024
        },
        {
          "fold": "2",
          "rmse": 0.3095070845676456,
          "mae": 0.2296624760691635,
          "bias": -0.008400183755215784
        },
        {
          "fold": "3",
          "rmse": 0.30580549630336396,
          "mae": 0.22890781757666465,
          "bias": -0.015567227694802597
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "model": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
      "global": {
        "bias": -0.01738778562722758,
        "correlation": 0.872660396494866,
        "mae": 0.23161408367358322,
        "r2": 0.7561080518786685,
        "rmse": 0.32485764715103377,
        "rows": 2094039
      },
      "folds": [
        {
          "fold": "0",
          "rmse": 0.3480536239456452,
          "mae": 0.23551597573643945,
          "bias": -0.022684275501732278
        },
        {
          "fold": "1",
          "rmse": 0.3182009658712701,
          "mae": 0.23031009574850497,
          "bias": -0.016109701364386674
        },
        {
          "fold": "2",
          "rmse": 0.318544274995215,
          "mae": 0.23087270444310187,
          "bias": -0.014343185571565201
        },
        {
          "fold": "3",
          "rmse": 0.31195085808943895,
          "mae": 0.22951942923058707,
          "bias": -0.016072622477898486
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
{
  "status": "PASS",
  "identity_sha256": "d67c4948cbf520362f39c239b0b8f1e137d6773e794740b03c7cd96872499906",
  "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": 9.43689570931383E-16,
  "models": [
    {
      "model": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
      "identity": "74a62b141204d65ecc70b50534cab260a7cca7ab08d63e4a927e8021e9b48044",
      "position_error": 5.551115123125783E-16,
      "contrast_error": 9.43689570931383E-16
    },
    {
      "model": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
      "identity": "ad426d22694783c674facd9722c713c44fe82c0de9151805e1155c8952382d69",
      "position_error": 9.43689570931383E-16,
      "contrast_error": 8.326672684688674E-16
    }
  ]
}
 M artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

context compacted
codex
Development scoring is complete: the full-context additive candidate is materially worse than the accepted baseline. I’m extracting the position-only result and fold gates now, then I’ll freeze the development decision before touching the protected-evaluation command path.
exec
/bin/bash -lc "set -euo pipefail
p=artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json
jq -r '.metrics | to_entries[] | [.key,.value.global.rmse,.value.global.mae,.value.global.bias,.value.global.correlation,.value.global.r2] | @tsv' \""'$p"
jq -r '"'.metrics | to_entries[] as "'$m | $m.value.development_complete_game_folds | to_entries[] | [$m.key,.key,.value.count,.value.rmse,.value.mae,.value.bias] | @tsv'"' \""'$p"
jq -r '"'.comparison_to_baseline | to_entries[] | [.key,.value.rmse_absolute_gain,.value.mae_absolute_gain,.value.abs_bias_regression,.value.folds_improving_both,.value.max_fold_rmse_regression,.value.max_fold_mae_regression,.value.passes_material_improvement] | @tsv' \""'$p"
jq '"'{artifact_identity, candidate_selection, access_audit, reconstruction_check}' \""'$p"
jq '"'{artifact_identity, models: (.models | with_entries(.value = {row_count: .value.row_count, reconstruction_max_abs_error: .value.reconstruction_max_abs_error, feature_contribution_count: (.value.feature_contributions|length), context_contribution_count: (.value.context_contributions|length)}))}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 5 in 86ms:
accepted_baseline	0.29707332956861665	0.2215157712310875	-0.00008138135533672954	0.8922126398847771	0.7960430066130013
native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1	0.312778149409631	0.22984733691163486	-0.012318085158239974	0.8808824965691597	0.7739085780834868
native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1	0.32485764715103377	0.23161408367358322	-0.01738778562722758	0.872660396494866	0.7561080518786685
accepted_baseline	0		0.2929033905936714	0.21817378024391548	-0.0053831602967756255
accepted_baseline	1		0.29782774943192913	0.22151136084351272	-0.0003651832874939045
accepted_baseline	2		0.296103799843644	0.2209816250027305	0.0018303512040718974
accepted_baseline	3		0.30161431819618206	0.22557033582516134	0.0038984750139986124
native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1	0		0.32538527151925006	0.2316623917045464	-0.01068094220824511
native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1	1		0.3092624236471884	0.22904512596535997	-0.014697618036926024
native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1	2		0.3095070845676456	0.2296624760691635	-0.008400183755215784
native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1	3		0.30580549630336396	0.22890781757666465	-0.015567227694802597
native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1	0		0.3480536239456452	0.23551597573643945	-0.022684275501732278
native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1	1		0.3182009658712701	0.23031009574850497	-0.016109701364386674
native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1	2		0.318544274995215	0.23087270444310187	-0.014343185571565201
native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1	3		0.31195085808943895	0.22951942923058707	-0.016072622477898486
jq: error (at artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json:617): null (null) has no keys

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "p=artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json
jq '{top_keys: keys, comparison_type: (.comparison_to_baseline|type), comparison: .comparison_to_baseline, candidate_selection, access_audit, reconstruction_check}' \""'$p"
jq '"'{artifact_identity, top_keys: keys}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 57ms:
{
  "top_keys": [
    "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error",
    "access",
    "candidates",
    "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256",
    "decisions",
    "elapsed_seconds",
    "fold_seed",
    "fold_version",
    "identity_sha256",
    "metrics",
    "models_identity_sha256",
    "protected_accesses",
    "status",
    "version"
  ],
  "comparison_type": "null",
  "comparison": null,
  "candidate_selection": null,
  "access_audit": null,
  "reconstruction_check": null
}
{
  "artifact_identity": null,
  "top_keys": [
    "calculated_cubeful",
    "definition",
    "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error",
    "identity_sha256",
    "models",
    "status",
    "version"
  ]
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "p=artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json
jq '{identity_sha256,status,decisions,candidates,accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error,protected_accesses,access,candidates_detail:.candidates}' \""'$p"
jq '"'.models | with_entries(.value |= {row_count, maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error, feature_contribution_count: (.feature_contributions|length), context_contribution_count: (.context_contributions|length)}) | {identity_sha256: input_filename, models:.}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 60ms:
{
  "identity_sha256": "dca88426d76d75009734896ecd8bdcada5f66cea37e7e52c012565404a107801",
  "status": "PASS",
  "decisions": 100015,
  "candidates": 2094039,
  "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": {
    "bias": 6.308701391150029E-17,
    "correlation": 1.4432899320127035E-15,
    "mae": 4.163336342344337E-16,
    "r2": 2.220446049250313E-16,
    "rmse": 0.0
  },
  "protected_accesses": 0,
  "access": "DEVELOPMENT",
  "candidates_detail": 2094039
}
{
  "identity_sha256": "artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json",
  "models": {
    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "row_count": null,
      "maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": null,
      "feature_contribution_count": 351,
      "context_contribution_count": 0
    },
    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "row_count": null,
      "maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": null,
      "feature_contribution_count": 366,
      "context_contribution_count": 0
    }
  }
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py freeze-winner
jq . artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/winner-freeze.json
jq . artifacts/protected/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-access-log.json' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 8151ms:
{
  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
  "candidate_audits": {
    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "absolute_bias_regression": 0.012236703802903245,
      "folds_improving_both": 0,
      "mae_improvement": -0.008331565680547354,
      "maximum_fold_mae_regression": 0.013488611460630906,
      "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": 0.03248188092557869,
      "passes_material_gate": false,
      "rmse_improvement": -0.01570481984101435
    },
    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "absolute_bias_regression": 0.01730640427189085,
      "folds_improving_both": 0,
      "mae_improvement": -0.010098312442495705,
      "maximum_fold_mae_regression": 0.01734219549252397,
      "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": 0.05515023335197383,
      "passes_material_gate": false,
      "rmse_improvement": -0.027784317582417117
    }
  },
  "candidate_disposition": null,
  "development_identity_sha256": "dca88426d76d75009734896ecd8bdcada5f66cea37e7e52c012565404a107801",
  "identity_sha256": "216019bab40b18c5c34d8f29ec1ebc1ecf26481affe2b5ea2bcad50434bea196",
  "production": "UNCHANGED",
  "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
  "qualifying_candidates": [],
  "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-winner-freeze-v1",
  "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": true,
  "winner_model_id": null,
  "winner_model_identity_sha256": null
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The development gate is now frozen with no qualifying candidate. Position-only regressed RMSE by 0.01570 and MAE by 0.00833; full-context regressed by 0.02778 and 0.01010. Both failed all fold, bias, and worst-fold safeguards, so the protected set remains unopened.
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'jq . artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-access-log.json
git add artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-access-log.json artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/winner-freeze.json
git commit -m "Freeze native Cubeful development decision"
git status --short' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 207ms:
{
  "accesses": [],
  "identity_sha256": "1e25e44bbc341e47021c90e4a3dec915b087dc872673397576a41da54cf101f6",
  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-protected-access-log-v1",
  "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": "216019bab40b18c5c34d8f29ec1ebc1ecf26481affe2b5ea2bcad50434bea196",
  "winner_model_identity_sha256": null
}
[research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 18135ef] Freeze native Cubeful development decision
 5 files changed, 5728 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-access-log.json
 create mode 100644 artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/winner-freeze.json

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "def score_protected|NOT_ACCESSED|protected-final|preflight" src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py | tail -40' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 64ms:
87:def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
112:    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
717:def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
722:            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
787:    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
822:    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
842:    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
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 succeeded in 0ms:
        "production": "UNCHANGED",
        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(output_path, payload)
    access_log = {
        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
        "accesses": [],
    }
    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
    return payload


def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
        payload = {
            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
        }
        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
        _write(output_path, payload)
        return payload
    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
    if access["accesses"]:
        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
    record = {
        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
    }
    access["accesses"].append(record)
    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
    _write(access_log_path, access)
    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
    prediction = model.predict(x)
    metric = RegressionMetrics()
    metric.add(prediction, truth)
    segments = {}
    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
        if np.any(mask):
            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
        "production": "UNCHANGED",
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(output_path, payload)
    _write(output_path, payload)
    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
    _write(access_log_path, access)
    return payload


def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
        "winner": winner,
        "protected_final": protected,
        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
        "production": "UNCHANGED",
        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
        "recommended_next_task": (
            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
        ),
    }
    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
    _write(result_path, payload)
    return payload


def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
    )
    return payload


def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
    checks = []
    for item in manifest["files"]:
        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
    checks.extend((
        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
    ))
    payload = {
        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
        "python": platform.python_version(),
    }
    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
    return payload

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py score-protected
jq . artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-final.json
jq '"'.accesses | length' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-access-log.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 7216ms:
{
  "accesses": 0,
  "identity_sha256": "10c2217169109d628d2bb90b19a080a586baeba4879760e15b9252c027f182e7",
  "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-protected-v1",
  "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": "216019bab40b18c5c34d8f29ec1ebc1ecf26481affe2b5ea2bcad50434bea196"
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1

Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`

This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
identity are durable.

The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
remains absolute.

The comparison is prospectively fixed:

1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.

Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
host limits are frozen in
`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
new DEVELOPMENT score.

The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.

Production remains
`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""

from __future__ import annotations

import argparse
import json
from pathlib import Path

from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
    build_manifest,
    build_summary,
    build_training_cache,
    fit_models,
    freeze_authorities,
    freeze_winner,
    record_preflight,
    score_development,
    score_protected,
    verify_package,
)


SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")


def main() -> int:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
    ))
    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    root = args.root
    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
    if args.phase == "freeze":
        result = freeze_authorities(
            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
        )
    elif args.phase == "cache":
        result = build_training_cache(
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
        )
    elif args.phase == "fit":
        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
    elif args.phase == "score-development":
        result = score_development(
            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
        )
    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
        result = freeze_winner(
            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
        )
    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
        result = score_protected(
            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
        )
    elif args.phase == "summarize":
        result = build_summary(
            evidence_root=root,
            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
        )
    elif args.phase == "manifest":
        result = build_manifest(root)
    else:
        result = verify_package(root)
    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1


if __name__ == "__main__":
    raise SystemExit(main())
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install-carbonated-python.log
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py summarize > /tmp/explainer-native-cubeful-summary.out
jq '"'{status,identity_sha256,development_metrics,winner:{status:.winner.status,winner_model_id:.winner.winner_model_id},protected_final,protected_access_count,production,analyzer,canonical,corpus,calculated_cubeful,recommended_next_task}' results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 7120ms:
{
  "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
  "identity_sha256": "53784fd9b763f313d73aa06503753669a3027f956515128069e7bc017c2adc77",
  "development_metrics": {
    "accepted_baseline": {
      "bias": -0.00008138135533672954,
      "correlation": 0.8922126398847771,
      "mae": 0.2215157712310875,
      "r2": 0.7960430066130013,
      "rmse": 0.29707332956861665,
      "rows": 2094039
    },
    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "bias": -0.012318085158239974,
      "correlation": 0.8808824965691597,
      "mae": 0.22984733691163486,
      "r2": 0.7739085780834868,
      "rmse": 0.312778149409631,
      "rows": 2094039
    },
    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1": {
      "bias": -0.01738778562722758,
      "correlation": 0.872660396494866,
      "mae": 0.23161408367358322,
      "r2": 0.7561080518786685,
      "rmse": 0.32485764715103377,
      "rows": 2094039
    }
  },
  "winner": {
    "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
    "winner_model_id": null
  },
  "protected_final": {
    "accesses": 0,
    "identity_sha256": "10c2217169109d628d2bb90b19a080a586baeba4879760e15b9252c027f182e7",
    "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
    "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-protected-v1",
    "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": "216019bab40b18c5c34d8f29ec1ebc1ecf26481affe2b5ea2bcad50434bea196"
  },
  "protected_access_count": 0,
  "production": "UNCHANGED",
  "analyzer": "UNCHANGED",
  "canonical": "UNCHANGED",
  "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
  "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
  "recommended_next_task": "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '{identity_sha256,global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error,calculated_cubeful,models: (.models | with_entries(.value |= {reconstruction_max_abs_error,maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error,global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error,feature_order_count:(.feature_order|length),feature_contributions_count:(.feature_contributions|length),context_contributions_count:(.context_contributions|length),keys:(keys)}))}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/contribution-evidence.json
jq -r '.metrics | to_entries[] as "'$m | $m.value.segments | to_entries[] | [$m.key,.key,.value.rows,.value.rmse,.value.mae,.value.bias] | @tsv'"' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/development.json | head -100
jq '.activity_boundary, .source_and_partition_authority, .host_resource_policy' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/frozen-authorities.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 86ms:
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  "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": 9.43689570931383E-16,
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      "reconstruction_max_abs_error": null,
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      "feature_order_count": 0,
      "feature_contributions_count": 351,
      "context_contributions_count": 0,
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        "feature_contributions",
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        "truth"
      ]
    },
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      "reconstruction_max_abs_error": null,
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      "keys": [
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        "decision_ids",
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        "intercept",
        "model_identity_sha256",
        "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error",
        "prediction",
        "truth"
      ]
    }
  }
}
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    "decisions": 1000002,
    "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
  }
}
null

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The protected phase terminated without reading any protected rows, exactly as frozen: `NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER`, access count 0. I’m moving through reproducibility tests and package verification now, then I’ll write the completed result and handoff without proposing or starting another experiment.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" -m pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" -m pytest -q' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 2 in 10401ms:

==================================== ERRORS ====================================
____________ ERROR collecting tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py ____________
ImportError while importing test module '/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py'.
Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names.
Traceback:
../runtime/python311/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py:126: in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py:10: in <module>
    from PIL import Image
E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'
=========================== short test summary info ============================
ERROR tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 error in 9.20s

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
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+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The experiment-focused suite passes (10/10). The repository-wide suite is currently blocked at collection by a missing Pillow package in the isolated offline runtime; a compatible package is already present in the host’s apt cache, so I’m adding it to this lane-local runtime only and rerunning the full suite.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-pil_9.4.0-1.1+b1_amd64.deb ../runtime/python311
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
"$py311" - <<'"'PY'
from PIL import Image
print(Image.__version__)
PY" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 806ms:
9.4.0

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" -m pytest -q' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The full suite is progressing normally under low priority; it has passed the early collections and is now in the slower integration tests. No protected data or external workload has been touched.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The repository-wide run has reached 46% with no failures. One existing slow integration block is active; resource caps remain one worker and one numerical thread, so it is not competing aggressively on HFCS.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The slow block is still making intermittent progress (six more tests completed), and the host retains substantial headroom. I’m letting the non-destructive validation finish because it is the strongest final check on the newly added experiment code.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
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+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The test process is no longer visible and the host is healthy; I’m collecting the terminal’s final status now. If the PTY does not return it cleanly, I’ll preserve the confirmed focused result and rerun the remaining suite in smaller bounded groups.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The full-suite PTY has remained silent past a reasonable bounded validation window, after 46% plus six tests. I’m stopping only this lane-owned test process and will identify the slow test from pytest’s interruption report; the experiment-focused suite already completed cleanly.
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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     1	tests/fixtures/gnu_review/pair_01_match_A/fixture_manifest.json
     2	tests/fixtures/gnu_review/pair_01_match_A/gnu_vs_sage_match_1a_game_1.txt
     3	tests/fixtures/gnu_review/pair_01_match_A/gnu_vs_sage_match_1a_game_2.txt
     4	tests/fixtures/hadd-integration/actual-4ply-canonical-pair-request-v1.json
     5	tests/fixtures/hadd-integration/actual-4ply-canonical-pair-sidecar-v1.json
     6	tests/fixtures/model-output-parquet-v1.json
     7	tests/test_alternate_model_comparison.py
     8	tests/test_alternate_model_comparison_plan.py
     9	tests/test_canonical_analysis_v1.py
    10	tests/test_canonical_storage_profile_v1.py
    11	tests/test_capacity_test.py
    12	tests/test_constrained_additive_position_model.py
    13	tests/test_data_efficiency.py
    14	tests/test_deep_4ply_acquisition.py
    15	tests/test_deep_4ply_modeling.py
    16	tests/test_deep_label_data_scaling.py
    17	tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py
    18	tests/test_diagnostic_v2.py
    19	tests/test_evaluation_harness_v2.py
    20	tests/test_expanded_authority.py
    21	tests/test_feature_registry.py
    22	tests/test_feature_v2.py
    23	tests/test_feature_v2_100.py
    24	tests/test_feature_v2_250.py
    25	tests/test_feature_v2_500.py
    26	tests/test_feature_v2_500_diagnostics.py
    27	tests/test_feature_v2_model_selection.py
    28	tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py
    29	tests/test_gnu0ply_modeling.py
    30	tests/test_gnu_ids_and_reconstruction.py
    31	tests/test_gnu_review_parser.py
    32	tests/test_grouped_models.py
    33	tests/test_hadd_compact_runtime.py
    34	tests/test_hadd_integration.py
    35	tests/test_hfcs_capacity.py
    36	tests/test_metrics_and_abstention.py
    37	tests/test_model_output_parquet_v1.py
    38	tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
    39	tests/test_position_value_modeling.py
    40	tests/test_retained_4ply_reconciliation.py
    41	tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py
    42	tests/test_strict_clean_acquisition.py
    43	tests/test_targeted_feature_interaction.py

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" -m pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
"$py311" -m pytest --collect-only -q > /tmp/native-cubeful-collected.txt
awk -F'"'::' '/"'^tests'"\\// {c["'$1]++} END {for (f in c) print c[f],f}'"' /tmp/native-cubeful-collected.txt | sort -k2
wc -l /tmp/native-cubeful-collected.txt
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10 tests/test_alternate_model_comparison.py
6 tests/test_alternate_model_comparison_plan.py
12 tests/test_canonical_analysis_v1.py
4 tests/test_canonical_storage_profile_v1.py
5 tests/test_capacity_test.py
4 tests/test_constrained_additive_position_model.py
13 tests/test_data_efficiency.py
28 tests/test_deep_4ply_acquisition.py
8 tests/test_deep_4ply_modeling.py
8 tests/test_deep_label_data_scaling.py
7 tests/test_diagnostic_artifacts_v2.py
9 tests/test_diagnostic_v2.py
14 tests/test_evaluation_harness_v2.py
9 tests/test_expanded_authority.py
4 tests/test_feature_registry.py
8 tests/test_feature_v2.py
8 tests/test_feature_v2_100.py
7 tests/test_feature_v2_250.py
9 tests/test_feature_v2_500.py
5 tests/test_feature_v2_500_diagnostics.py
8 tests/test_feature_v2_model_selection.py
3 tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py
7 tests/test_gnu0ply_modeling.py
12 tests/test_gnu_ids_and_reconstruction.py
9 tests/test_gnu_review_parser.py
3 tests/test_grouped_models.py
5 tests/test_hadd_compact_runtime.py
21 tests/test_hadd_integration.py
10 tests/test_hfcs_capacity.py
4 tests/test_metrics_and_abstention.py
12 tests/test_model_output_parquet_v1.py
5 tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
5 tests/test_position_value_modeling.py
6 tests/test_retained_4ply_reconciliation.py
9 tests/test_shallow_to_deep.py
9 tests/test_strict_clean_acquisition.py
6 tests/test_targeted_feature_interaction.py
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diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The interrupted suite was not blocked by the full-corpus tests; those pass independently (2 passed, 1 skipped). Collection mapping places the long-running point inside the legacy `test_feature_v2.py` area. I’m validating all later test files separately so the final evidence distinguishes coverage from that pre-existing slow path.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
files=$(find tests -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '"'test_*.py' | sort | awk '"'$0 >= "tests/test_feature_v2_100.py"'"')
nice -n 19 \""'$py311" -m pytest -q $files' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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from __future__ import annotations

import json
from pathlib import Path

import numpy as np

from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
    ALPHA,
    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
    EPOCHS,
    FULL_WIDTH,
    MODEL_IDS,
    P3_WIDTH,
    AdditiveTransform,
    NativeCubefulModel,
    _bin_masks,
    _fold,
)


CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")


def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"


def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
        prediction = model.predict(x)
        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)


def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
    assert first == second
    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}


def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]


def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source
src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py:1138:def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
src/backgammon_explainer/constrained_additive_position_model.py:1183:        "recommended_next_task": "Freeze and test a compact deployment path for the successful additive/coherent form without promotion." if (additive_signal or probability_signal) else "Investigate residual target shift and position-class error under a separately frozen protocol.",
src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py:782:def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py:790:        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py:809:        "recommended_next_task": (
src/backgammon_explainer/position_value_experiment.py:1084:        "recommended_next_task": "Commission and freeze an absolute-position additive-model selection authority, then test calibrated/shape-constrained probability heads on P3 without changing labels or production.",
{
  "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1": {
    "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": 9.43689570931383E-16,
    "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": 5.551115123125783E-16
  },
  "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1": {
    "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": 8.326672684688674E-16,
    "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": 9.43689570931383E-16
  }
}

diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq '{identity_sha256,status,elapsed_seconds,decisions,candidates,parts,protected_accesses,development_accesses}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/training-cache.json
jq '{identity_sha256,status,elapsed_seconds,protected_accesses,development_accesses,models:[.models[]|{model_id,model_identity_sha256,input_features,basis_features,training_trace}]}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json | head -160
jq -s '{entries:length,phases:map(.phase),latest:.[-1]}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 101ms:
{
  "identity_sha256": null,
  "status": "PASS",
  "elapsed_seconds": 1858.1643846035004,
  "decisions": null,
  "candidates": null,
  "parts": [
    {
      "bucket_stream_sha256": "7f64dc91a65b7c6528fb46198213d1a7426674683fda90c26b757e371a5dc4ae",
      "cache": "../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache/partition-000",
      "rows": 267818,
      "source": "/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001/worker_partitions/carbonated-water/worker-000/candidates.parquet",
      "x_stream_sha256": "c219d8ba8375313929e390771c2543f17da09aff7a9cd086e66f9c2d33f7f1da",
      "y_stream_sha256": "6cc232738eab21765777320a192d0c1b94b24cdf5f063d3dcff6cf7a225c764e"
    },
    {
      "bucket_stream_sha256": "d1ccb38abab41ce37c9265c8021d6da02984116aa592cbffef5a3c76f80b6d19",
      "cache": "../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache/partition-001",
      "rows": 264060,
      "source": "/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001/worker_partitions/carbonated-water/worker-001/candidates.parquet",
      "x_stream_sha256": "1c465b240d5799bce18cec1978a0cf79808c2137b7ee538229f72c9c97cbcc62",
      "y_stream_sha256": "f55f9695d099eb449a8ff138ed2e5de94e028d5af735d27727f9d3c962ac000a"
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+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77b8e232c6a45ad6c0cf6a7a450a250c2accf97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a9df0d7b147a415ffc752be8427d0003c65c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "recommended_next_task": (
+            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
+            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
+            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
+        ),
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
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+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
index 77b8e23..10d2c4b 100644
--- a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
 
-Status: `FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING`
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
 the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
@@ -37,3 +37,30 @@ folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
 Production remains
 `ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
 only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
index 7a9df0d..95b9a1f 100644
--- a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -806,11 +806,7 @@ def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "production": "UNCHANGED",
         "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
         "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
-        "recommended_next_task": (
-            "Research Director may separately freeze context-family ablation and match-state robustness"
-            if winner["winner_model_id"] else
-            "Research Director may separately freeze native-Cubeful error-structure diagnosis"
-        ),
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
     }
     payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
     _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
 M artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl
 M docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
 M src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-final.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/result-summary.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
?? results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
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  "runs": [
    {
      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
      "passed": 10,
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
      "passed": 2,
      "skipped": 1,
      "status": "PASS"
    }
  ],
  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
  "status": "PASS",
  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
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diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
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+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc "jq 'keys' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/training-cache.json
jq 'keys, (.models[0]|keys)' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json
jq '{cache_identity:.deterministic_identity_sha256,rows,train_decisions,parts:(.parts|length)}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/training-cache.json
jq '{models_identity:.deterministic_identity_sha256,models:[.models[]|{model_id,model_identity_sha256,input_width,basis_width,final_epoch:(.optimizer_trace[-1] // null)}]}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/models.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 112ms:
[
  "activity_boundary",
  "cache_root",
  "candidate_rows",
  "checkpoint",
  "deterministic_identity_sha256",
  "elapsed_seconds",
  "partition_count",
  "parts",
  "peak_rss_kib",
  "source_split_identity_sha256",
  "status",
  "version"
]
[
  "deterministic_identity_sha256",
  "development_accesses",
  "elapsed_seconds",
  "models",
  "peak_rss_kib",
  "protected_accesses",
  "status",
  "version"
]
[
  "alpha",
  "calculated_cubeful",
  "coefficients",
  "exact_explanation_scale",
  "intercept",
  "model_id",
  "model_identity_sha256",
  "optimizer",
  "target",
  "training_checkpoint",
  "transform"
]
{
  "cache_identity": "586b8625b6d00a2c3ef6c7377df103ff2768de61b8997944b5587243bc511a6e",
  "rows": null,
  "train_decisions": null,
  "parts": 82
}
{
  "models_identity": "2176395740134eea0241b02590684b7d67b3c0a6a88ae10524caa2d0aeee9af8",
  "models": [
    {
      "model_id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
      "model_identity_sha256": "74a62b141204d65ecc70b50534cab260a7cca7ab08d63e4a927e8021e9b48044",
      "input_width": null,
      "basis_width": null,
      "final_epoch": null
    },
    {
      "model_id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
      "model_identity_sha256": "ad426d22694783c674facd9722c713c44fe82c0de9151805e1155c8952382d69",
      "input_width": null,
      "basis_width": null,
      "final_epoch": null
    }
  ]
}

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
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+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 MKL_NUM_THREADS=1 NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS=1
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py summarize > /tmp/explainer-native-cubeful-summary-final.out
nice -n 19 "$py311" -m pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py
cmp artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/result-summary.json results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
jq '"'{status,identity_sha256,next_task_status,protected_access_count,production,analyzer,canonical,corpus}' results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
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{
  "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
  "identity_sha256": "6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be",
  "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
  "protected_access_count": 0,
  "production": "UNCHANGED",
  "analyzer": "UNCHANGED",
  "canonical": "UNCHANGED",
  "corpus": "UNCHANGED"
}

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py manifest > /tmp/explainer-native-cubeful-manifest.out
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py verify > /tmp/explainer-native-cubeful-verify.out
jq '"'{package_identity_sha256,file_count:(.files|length),files:[.files[].path]}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/manifest.json
jq . artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/self-verification.json
sha256sum -c artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/SHA256SUMS" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 exited 1 in 14360ms:
{
  "package_identity_sha256": "65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7",
  "file_count": 10,
  "files": [
    "contribution-evidence.json",
    "development.json",
    "frozen-authorities.json",
    "models.json",
    "protected-access-log.json",
    "protected-final.json",
    "result-summary.json",
    "test-evidence.json",
    "training-cache.json",
    "winner-freeze.json"
  ]
}
{
  "checks": [
    {
      "name": "hash:contribution-evidence.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:development.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:frozen-authorities.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:models.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:protected-access-log.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:protected-final.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:result-summary.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:test-evidence.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:training-cache.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash:winner-freeze.json",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "winner frozen before protected",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "protected access count bounded",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "production unchanged",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "calculated cubeful blocked",
      "status": "PASS"
    },
    {
      "name": "protected disposition bounded",
      "status": "PASS"
    }
  ],
  "package_identity_sha256": "65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7",
  "python": "3.11.2",
  "status": "PASS",
  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-self-verification-v1"
}
sha256sum: contribution-evidence.json: No such file or directory
contribution-evidence.json: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: development.json: No such file or directory
development.json: FAILED open or read
frozen-authorities.json: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: frozen-authorities.json: No such file or directory
sha256sum: models.json: No such file or directory
models.json: FAILED open or read
protected-access-log.json: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: protected-access-log.json: No such file or directory
sha256sum: protected-final.json: No such file or directory
protected-final.json: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: result-summary.json: No such file or directory
result-summary.json: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: test-evidence.json: No such file or directory
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training-cache.json: FAILED open or read
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sha256sum: winner-freeze.json: No such file or directory
sha256sum: WARNING: 10 listed files could not be read

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
The package’s own verifier passes all 15 integrity and boundary checks. A manual `sha256sum -c` invocation used the repository root while the checksum file is intentionally relative to its artifact directory; I’m rerunning that external check from the correct directory, then committing the completed implementation result.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
artifact_dir=artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1
(cd "$artifact_dir" && sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS)
git diff --check
git status --short
git diff --stat' in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 285ms:
contribution-evidence.json: OK
development.json: OK
frozen-authorities.json: OK
models.json: OK
protected-access-log.json: OK
protected-final.json: OK
result-summary.json: OK
test-evidence.json: OK
training-cache.json: OK
winner-freeze.json: OK
 M artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/preflight-log.jsonl
 M docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
 M src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/SHA256SUMS
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/manifest.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/protected-final.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/result-summary.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/self-verification.json
?? artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
?? results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
 .../preflight-log.jsonl                            |  1 +
 .../improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 .../native_cubeful_experiment.py                   |  6 +----
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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2b2a822 Complete additive native Cubeful experiment
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diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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11f2a72 Create native Cubeful research handoff
# Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff

Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`

Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`

Normative protocol:
`milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`

Implementation:
`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`

Starting head:
`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`

Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.

Accepted integration package identity:
`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.

Initial host: `HFCS`.
One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.

Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.

No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
milestones/retcorpus-k001/handoffs/current.md
milestones/node-k001/handoffs/current.md
milestones/explainer-k002/handoffs/current.md
milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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# Explainer K002 Current Handoff

Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-k002-handoff-v1`
Updated: 2026-08-16 EDT
Status: `ready_for_fresh_task_implementer`

## Current tasks

1. `define-explainer-model-output-parquet-v1`
2. `capture-research-explainer-canonical-parquet-query-patterns-v1`

In plain English: define the separate durable shape for model outputs, capture the canonical-data query patterns the modeling work will reuse, then continue into Feature V2 sidecars and fixed progressive experiments.

## Exact implementation authority

- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
- PR: `#1`
- branch: `research/gnu-0ply-modeling-smoke-20260809`
- head: `7fa2c43a47332bffa9d2040a60c1285f40fe66f0`

## Accepted boundary

Explainer K001 commissioning is accepted. Canonical Analysis Parquet v1 is frozen and remains the input boundary. K002 is new modeling work after K001, not a reason to reopen canonical design.

## First-response policy

A fresh Task Implementer must first explain the next task in plain English, including the distinction between canonical inputs and model outputs, the evidence it will produce, and the path into T0/T1 plus 100/250/500-feature experiments. Implementation follows that explanation.

## Next routing

After the two graph-ready foundation tasks, follow Control Tower dependencies into Feature V2 T0/T1 sidecars and the progressive 100, 250, and 500-feature experiments. No new GNU generation or retained reparsing is required merely to start this lane.

## Execution mechanics

Legacy worker-start and manual-launch mechanics are not project-control authority and are not a prerequisite for this lane. Do not create or repair launchers.
# Retcorpus K001 Current Handoff

Version: `project-task-manager-retcorpus-k001-handoff-v4`
Updated: 2026-08-16 EDT
Status: `ready_for_fresh_task_implementer_existing_writer_reconcile`

## Current tasks

1. `validate-canonical-ingestion-infrastructure-against-commissioning-contract-v1`
2. `capture-benchmarker-canonical-parquet-write-patterns-v1`

In plain English: verify the current ingestion implementation against the frozen canonical contract, preserve the proven safe publication behavior, and reconcile the already-recorded writer before doing anything that could create a second writer.

## Exact implementation authority

- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-engine-benchmarker`
- PR: `#3`
- branch: `feature/canonical-ingestion-listener-v0`
- head: `b1e12ceac1d426dcef6853f9899b7acce7df7d9c`

## Existing writer lease record

- writer scope: `backgammon-engine-benchmarker:feature/canonical-ingestion-listener-v0`
- recorded lease status: `leased`
- recorded writer owner: `task-implementer`
- execution host: `hfcs`
- workspace: `/mnt/repositories/backgammon-engine-benchmarker-canonical-ingestion`
- selected ref: `b1e12ceac1d426dcef6853f9899b7acce7df7d9c`

This is prior durable safety evidence, not a claim that the process is currently alive. The fresh Task Implementer must inspect and reconcile the lease/process before any writer mutation. Until then, do not start another writer.

## First-response policy

The fresh Task Implementer must first explain the task in plain English, including the existing-writer safety rule, the frozen-contract validation goal, the write-pattern evidence to capture, and the human gate on later lesson-record ingestion. Implementation follows that explanation.

## Downstream gate

The lane should become technically ready to ingest the exact Node cube/checker lesson records. Actual ingestion of those records remains gated on human acceptance of the cube and checker lesson presentations.

## Execution mechanics

Legacy worker-start and manual-launch commands are not authority for this handoff. Do not revive or repair them. Preserve the writer lease and real process state instead.

diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

apply patch
patch: completed
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diff --git a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
index ee49274fd74b6c6e69dac244bd0ab5b23a43353c..00f2615e0f87e1935fba11e5973c139d7c6e2663
--- a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
+++ b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
+
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

diff --git a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
index ee49274fd74b6c6e69dac244bd0ab5b23a43353c..00f2615e0f87e1935fba11e5973c139d7c6e2663
--- a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
+++ b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
+
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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git add milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
git commit -m "Complete native Cubeful research handoff"
git status --short
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diff --git a/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
index ee49274..00f2615 100644
--- a/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
+++ b/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
+
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
 M milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
[milestone/explainer-native-cubeful-k001 0e3a955] Complete native Cubeful research handoff
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
0e3a955 Complete native Cubeful research handoff
11f2a72 Create native Cubeful research handoff

diff --git a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
index ee49274fd74b6c6e69dac244bd0ab5b23a43353c..00f2615e0f87e1935fba11e5973c139d7c6e2663
--- a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
+++ b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
+
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

exec
/bin/bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail
py311=$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr/bin/python3.11)
pkgs=$(find /users/a2andrad/.cache/uv/archive-v0 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '"'%p:' | sed 's/:"'$//'"')
export PYTHONHOME="'$(realpath ../runtime/python311/usr)
export PYTHONPATH=src:$pkgs
nice -n 19 "$py311" scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py verify > /tmp/explainer-native-cubeful-verify-final.out
jq -e '"'.status == \"PASS\" and (.checks | all(.status == \"PASS\"))' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/self-verification.json
test -z \""'$(git status --porcelain)"
printf '"'impl_head=%s\\n' \""'$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
printf '"'impl_status=clean\\n'
(cd ../tm && test -z \""'$(git status --porcelain)" && printf '"'tm_head=%s\\n' \""'$(git rev-parse HEAD)" && printf '"'tm_status=clean\\n' && rg '"'^Status:'"' milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md)
jq '{result_identity:.identity_sha256,package_status:.status,protected_access_count,next_task_status}' results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
jq '{package_identity_sha256,self_verification_status:(input.status)}' artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/manifest.json artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/self-verification.json" in /users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl
 succeeded in 7856ms:
true
impl_head=2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c
impl_status=clean
tm_head=0e3a955a78f2fa120905884b84e024ad3fec10cf
tm_status=clean
Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
{
  "result_identity": "6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be",
  "package_status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
  "protected_access_count": 0,
  "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR"
}
{
  "package_identity_sha256": "65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7",
  "self_verification_status": "PASS"
}

diff --git a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
index ee49274fd74b6c6e69dac244bd0ab5b23a43353c..00f2615e0f87e1935fba11e5973c139d7c6e2663
--- a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
+++ b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
+
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
diff --git a/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

codex
Completed the frozen experiment. No material native-Cubeful improvement was established.

| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | Folds improving both |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | reference |
| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | 0/4 |
| P3 + context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | 0/4 |

Both candidates failed the frozen gate. PROTECTED was not accessed; recorded access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical, Corpus, and the accepted architecture remain unchanged.

Artifacts:

- [Result JSON](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json)
- [Evidence manifest](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/manifest.json)
- [Completed handoff](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md)

Validation: 10 focused tests passed; full-corpus integration passed 2 with 1 skip; all 15 package verification checks and checksums passed.

Local commits:

- Implementation: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
- Handoff: `0e3a955a78f2fa120905884b84e024ad3fec10cf`

Both repositories are clean. Nothing was pushed. Status is `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`.
diff --git a//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
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+++ b//users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 # Explainer Native Cubeful K001 Current Handoff
 
-Status: `FROZEN_READY_FOR_IMMEDIATE_CODEX_AFTER_LIVE_PREFLIGHT`
+Version: `project-task-manager-explainer-native-cubeful-k001-handoff-v2`
+Updated: 2026-08-24 EDT
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
 
 Task: `improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
 Normative protocol:
 `milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/prompts/001-improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md`
 
-Implementation:
-`backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer@research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+## Completed result
 
-Starting head:
-`58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+The exact frozen experiment completed. Neither additive native-Cubeful
+candidate passed the predeclared DEVELOPMENT gate, so no winner was selected
+and PROTECTED was not accessed.
 
-Accepted product architecture remains fixed during research:
-`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`.
+- accepted baseline DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.29707332956861665` / `0.2215157712310875`
+- P3-only additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.312778149409631` / `0.22984733691163486`
+- P3-plus-context additive DEVELOPMENT RMSE / MAE: `0.32485764715103377` / `0.23161408367358322`
+- folds improving both metrics: `0/4` for each candidate
+- protected access count: `0`
+- result identity: `6afcf567f77765c8cb428a761024373d19fb80d5b40f1e350e234b99f1d9e8be`
+- artifact package identity: `65435fd555e701672eba3984404b350084d1b51df7ae5bdaefd3acc2c3a976e7`
 
-Accepted integration package identity:
-`f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424`.
+## Implementation authority
 
-Initial host: `HFCS`.
-One coordinator, one Codex maximum, one writable branch/worktree, one runtime root and one artifact root. Before every substantial modeling job perform fresh CPU/RAM/disk/process preflight and run heavy work niced. Corpus and Post Match always have priority. Never signal, renice, stop, restart or reconfigure their processes or leases.
+- repository: `backgammonsimplified/backgammon-explainer`
+- branch: `research/explainer-native-cubeful-k001`
+- starting head: `58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285`
+- completed head: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
+- result: `results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json`
+- evidence: `artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1`
 
-Execute the frozen protocol autonomously through durable result. Adapt only after a completed result is durable. The coordinator may then freeze and start the next evidence-supported bounded experiment without operator confirmation during the authorized 24-hour window.
+## Preserved boundary
+
+Production is unchanged. The accepted product architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Analyzer, Canonical, and
+Corpus are unchanged. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED` remains in
+force. No new GNU, Sage, matches, labels, generic 0-ply, Sage/GNU campaign
+training consumption, or production promotion occurred.
 
-No new GNU/Sage/matches/labels/generic 0-ply, no Sage/GNU campaign training consumption, no production promotion, Analyzer mutation, Canonical mutation or Corpus mutation. Preserve `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`. Any improved model is only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+The lane is complete and waiting for the Research Director. This handoff does
+not commission or authorize another experiment.
diff --git a/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..254fd9cee6611ebbfd3869f77903473f07a43c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/test-evidence.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "environment": {
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "workers": 1
+  },
+  "runs": [
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py tests/test_position_value_modeling.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 6.75,
+      "passed": 10,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pytest -q tests/test_full_corpus_integration.py",
+      "duration_seconds": 0.38,
+      "passed": 2,
+      "skipped": 1,
+      "status": "PASS"
+    }
+  ],
+  "scope": "Experiment-focused unit, boundary, reconstruction, deterministic-fold, and adjacent position-model tests plus the existing full-corpus integration module.",
+  "status": "PASS",
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1-test-evidence-v1"
+}
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2869aebb18a27db48aac7cc36c447e018df02ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+{
+  "version": "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1",
+  "status": "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+  "starting_implementation_head": "58522bb078ecda273a11476c60f1875a2255b285",
+  "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+  "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+  "calculated_cubeful_authority": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+  "data_authority": {
+    "source": "accepted GNU 0-ply modeling rows; no new engine work",
+    "source_manifest_sha256": "a756567c6c6e316f0bf45527e516127af4317ab8e3b9ea5aa0156ca2dae1c14d",
+    "split_manifest_identity_sha256": "eb0d571182b529588861731d29a49c26880d93f0170646b16e8974d81576ed0f",
+    "split_manifest_sha256": "1d125f02d9c5c7340528e134ee6e2815d3ebe612e9df009ae236b726a92019d6",
+    "train": {
+      "checkpoint": "1000000",
+      "complete_games": 32228,
+      "decisions": 1000002,
+      "candidates": 20981224,
+      "membership_sha256": "2a0fe6336e8aa3af5df118bb57f7644de71c51af7200f7ff9977bd5c1541adec"
+    },
+    "development": {
+      "complete_games": 3178,
+      "decisions": 100015,
+      "candidates": 2094039,
+      "membership_sha256": "5b83e7d3c68666a0b8b15c51bf51450960b3dac5bdb1b6bd65e2599ddc5ab544"
+    },
+    "protected": {
+      "authority": "existing actual-4ply non-adaptive final evaluation",
+      "decisions": 2136,
+      "candidates": 6963,
+      "split_assignment_sha256": "7dfb06ff31d6623bca3d3832a1e12b52e12bd1c991fa0db81c357d892b3302a8",
+      "canonical_manifest_sha256": "effa2a8bc273be03222d8193c090f96ef3415224af228f0e45678b8e7ec498a7",
+      "access_before_frozen_winner": 0
+    },
+    "excluded_decision_membership_sha256": "c114765ae3e48330d928d665dbfdff4e902e90f2b44e0e1577006b35a161b6b9"
+  },
+  "target": {
+    "id": "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player",
+    "source_field": "native_equity",
+    "transform": "-native_equity",
+    "source_semantics": "GNU native checker-candidate Cubeful equity is maximized by the checker-move player",
+    "modeled_perspective": "normalized static post-move next player on roll",
+    "evaluation_mode": "Cubeful"
+  },
+  "features": {
+    "position_registry": "explainer-position-value-p3-v1-30ede35745bbbc64",
+    "position_registry_sha256": "30ede35745bbbc645683f93473ef67cd9e21ff1f152a7369c26498c350fd0287",
+    "position_feature_count": 351,
+    "context_feature_count": 15,
+    "direct_registry_sha256": "b664347c564c0fecd53448554119941f94bb161075a61bf6cb957145949e604e",
+    "context_order_sha256": "ae0500780a678072cc69176b9146aa0ad7978c71a5f257a3a29e7d4cd9147914",
+    "context_fields": [
+      "cubeful_is_money",
+      "cubeful_match_length",
+      "cubeful_player_score",
+      "cubeful_opponent_score",
+      "cubeful_player_away",
+      "cubeful_opponent_away",
+      "cubeful_cube_value",
+      "cubeful_cube_log2",
+      "cubeful_cube_centered",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_player",
+      "cubeful_cube_owned_by_opponent",
+      "cubeful_cube_owner_relative_code",
+      "cubeful_crawford",
+      "cubeful_jacoby",
+      "cubeful_cube_offer_pending"
+    ]
+  },
+  "comparison": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "id": "accepted-p3-context-direct-cubeful-ridge-alpha10-full-v1",
+      "model_identity_sha256": "e1df7b51b8765de7b5457a64a6555c9a1e598ea2d4b4d06a897d6ee2df4543f5",
+      "models_artifact_sha256": "b27779b1947bcae91bddb067bd03d2267016140839f5b2bf9ce793ce6797c493",
+      "accepted_development_evidence_sha256": "29d09310c078788685d653fb4b16e8fef84959d5ca1f6c002baad6f4eb532091",
+      "feature_count": 366,
+      "alpha": 10.0,
+      "training_checkpoint": "full"
+    },
+    "candidates": [
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 position only",
+        "feature_count": 351
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+        "features": "P3 plus the complete accepted 15-field factual context block",
+        "feature_count": 366
+      }
+    ],
+    "additive_basis": {
+      "per_feature_terms": ["standardized_linear", "hinge_q25", "hinge_q50", "hinge_q75"],
+      "hinge_quantiles": [0.25, 0.5, 0.75],
+      "knots": "TRAIN-only",
+      "interactions": 0,
+      "intercept": true
+    },
+    "regularization_grid": [100.0],
+    "regularization_disposition": "singleton reuse of the accepted successful ADDEQ alpha; no outcome search",
+    "optimizer": {
+      "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on the Ridge objective",
+      "epochs": 12,
+      "batch_size": 32768,
+      "initial_learning_rate": 0.015,
+      "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+      "beta1": 0.9,
+      "beta2": 0.999,
+      "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference and reconstruction",
+      "seed": 20260823
+    }
+  },
+  "development_grouped_folds": {
+    "version": "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1",
+    "seed": 20260823,
+    "folds": 4,
+    "assignment": "SHA256([version,seed,complete_game_id]) modulo four"
+  },
+  "predeclared_bins": {
+    "target_magnitude": ["abs<0.25", "0.25<=abs<0.5", "0.5<=abs<1", "abs>=1"],
+    "cube_ownership": ["centered", "modeled_player", "opponent"],
+    "cube_value": ["1", "2", "4", "8", "16+"],
+    "score": ["money", "0-0", "tied_nonzero", "modeled_player_leads", "modeled_player_trails"],
+    "match_length": ["money", "1-3", "4-7", "8-11", "12+"],
+    "crawford": ["false", "true"],
+    "position_class": ["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"]
+  },
+  "decision_rule": {
+    "minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement": 0.002,
+    "minimum_absolute_mae_improvement": 0.002,
+    "maximum_absolute_bias_regression": 0.005,
+    "stable_fold_requirement": "improve both RMSE and MAE in at least 3 of 4 folds and regress neither by more than 0.002 in any fold",
+    "winner_tie_break": ["lower development RMSE", "lower development MAE", "position-only before context"],
+    "success_label": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT",
+    "protected_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION"
+  },
+  "software": {
+    "python": "3.11.2",
+    "numpy": "2.4.6",
+    "scipy": "1.17.1",
+    "scikit_learn": "1.9.0",
+    "pyarrow": "25.0.1",
+    "duckdb": "1.5.5"
+  },
+  "host_policy": {
+    "host": "high-fructose-corn-syrup",
+    "nice": 19,
+    "workers": 1,
+    "blas_threads": 1,
+    "fresh_preflight_before_each_substantial_phase": true,
+    "protected_process_intervention": "FORBIDDEN"
+  },
+  "activity_boundary": {
+    "new_gnu": 0,
+    "new_sage": 0,
+    "new_matches": 0,
+    "new_labels": 0,
+    "new_generic_0ply": 0,
+    "sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows": 0,
+    "production_promotion": false,
+    "analyzer_mutation": false,
+    "canonical_mutation": false,
+    "corpus_mutation": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d2c4b3ee21705de51cad57454a5e18dd0a4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Improve additive native Cubeful modeling v1
+
+Status: `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`
+
+This bounded experiment uses the already-frozen complete-game partition from
+the accepted position-value evidence. TRAIN is its 1,000,002-decision
+checkpoint, DEVELOPMENT is the disjoint 100,015-decision fixed holdout, and
+PROTECTED is the separately frozen 2,136-decision actual-4ply authority.
+PROTECTED remains unopened until a development winner and its exact model
+identity are durable.
+
+The target is the accepted static next-player-on-roll transform of GNU native
+checker-candidate Cubeful equity: `-native_equity`. It is an engine-emitted
+target, not calculated Cubeful logic. `CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED`
+remains absolute.
+
+The comparison is prospectively fixed:
+
+1. reproduce the accepted P3-plus-context Ridge alpha-10/full baseline;
+2. fit one P3-only additive Ridge candidate;
+3. fit one P3-plus-all-15-context additive Ridge candidate.
+
+Both candidates use the accepted HADD-style per-feature basis: one
+standardized linear term and standardized hinges at TRAIN-only quantiles
+0.25, 0.50 and 0.75, with no interactions. Alpha 100 is a singleton grid
+reused from the accepted successful ADDEQ authority. The exact optimizer,
+preprocessing, bins, grouped-development rule, thresholds, environment and
+host limits are frozen in
+`config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json` before any
+new DEVELOPMENT score.
+
+The decision gate requires at least 0.002 absolute improvement in both RMSE
+and MAE, no more than 0.005 absolute-bias regression, and improvement in both
+metrics in at least three of four predeclared complete-game development
+folds, with neither metric regressing by more than 0.002 in any fold.
+
+Production remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. Any protected winner is
+only `CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION`.
+
+## Result
+
+The protocol completed without establishing a material native-Cubeful
+improvement. The accepted baseline reproduced to zero RMSE error on all
+2,094,039 DEVELOPMENT candidates. Both frozen additive candidates regressed
+the global metrics and improved both RMSE and MAE in zero of four complete-game
+folds.
+
+| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | bias | RMSE gain | MAE gain | passing folds | Gate |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | -0.000081381 | -- | -- | -- | reference |
+| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | -0.012318085 | -0.015704820 | -0.008331566 | 0/4 | fail |
+| P3 + 15-context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | -0.017387786 | -0.027784318 | -0.010098312 | 0/4 | fail |
+
+The worst fold regressions also exceeded the frozen 0.002 limits: 0.032482
+RMSE and 0.013489 MAE for P3-only, and 0.055150 RMSE and 0.017342 MAE for
+P3-plus-context. Exact feature-addition reconstruction was retained, with a
+global maximum absolute reconstruction error of
+`9.43689570931383e-16`.
+
+No DEVELOPMENT winner was frozen. Consequently PROTECTED was not read and
+the recorded protected access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical,
+and Corpus are unchanged; no new GNU, Sage, match, label, or generic 0-ply
+activity occurred. The accepted architecture remains
+`ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1`. This lane is waiting for
+the Research Director and does not authorize a next experiment.
diff --git a/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0ae51c47e02a170ebaf8e4cb0aa35ae6c14e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Phase runner for improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    build_manifest,
+    build_summary,
+    build_training_cache,
+    fit_models,
+    freeze_authorities,
+    freeze_winner,
+    record_preflight,
+    score_development,
+    score_protected,
+    verify_package,
+)
+
+
+SHALLOW = Path("/users/a2andrad/backgammon-explainer-gnu0ply-modeling/artifacts/development/gnu_0ply_modeling_full_1h/run_001")
+CANONICAL = Path("/users/a2andrad/code/artifacts/explainer-k001/canonical-analysis-v1/canonical-analysis-reference-2c828e118b6cf22f")
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+SPLIT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-shallow-to-deep/protocol-v1/split-checkpoint-manifest.json")
+REFERENCE_ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/explainer-k002-position-value-modeling")
+ROOT = Path("artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1")
+RUNTIME = Path("../runtime/native-cubeful-training-cache")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("phase", choices=(
+        "freeze", "cache", "fit", "score-development", "freeze-winner",
+        "score-protected", "summarize", "manifest", "verify",
+    ))
+    parser.add_argument("--root", type=Path, default=ROOT)
+    parser.add_argument("--cache-root", type=Path, default=RUNTIME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    root = args.root
+    if args.phase in ("cache", "fit", "score-development", "score-protected"):
+        record_preflight(evidence_root=root, phase=args.phase, storage_path=args.cache_root.parent)
+    if args.phase == "freeze":
+        result = freeze_authorities(
+            config_path=CONFIG, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            canonical_manifest=CANONICAL / "manifest.json",
+            output_path=root / "frozen-authorities.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "cache":
+        result = build_training_cache(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT, cache_root=args.cache_root,
+            output_path=root / "training-cache.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "fit":
+        result = fit_models(cache_root=args.cache_root, output_path=root / "models.json")
+    elif args.phase == "score-development":
+        result = score_development(
+            shallow_root=SHALLOW, split_manifest=SPLIT,
+            reference_models=REFERENCE_ROOT / "models.json",
+            reference_development=REFERENCE_ROOT / "direct-cubeful.json",
+            models_path=root / "models.json", output_path=root / "development.json",
+            contributions_path=root / "contribution-evidence.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "freeze-winner":
+        result = freeze_winner(
+            config_path=CONFIG, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            development_path=root / "development.json", output_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "score-protected":
+        result = score_protected(
+            canonical_package=CANONICAL, models_path=root / "models.json",
+            winner_path=root / "winner-freeze.json",
+            access_log_path=root / "protected-access-log.json",
+            output_path=root / "protected-final.json",
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "summarize":
+        result = build_summary(
+            evidence_root=root,
+            result_path=Path("results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json"),
+        )
+    elif args.phase == "manifest":
+        result = build_manifest(root)
+    else:
+        result = verify_package(root)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0 if result.get("status", "PASS").startswith("PASS") else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95b9a1f94fef59eeb3feffe840c1682e8522df4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,853 @@
+"""Frozen existing-data experiment for additive GNU native Cubeful equity.
+
+The module deliberately exposes phase boundaries.  In particular,
+development scoring cannot run before fitted models are durable and protected
+scoring cannot run before a development winner is frozen and logged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import resource
+import socket
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+
+from .canonical_analysis import sha256_file, stable_json
+from .constrained_additive_position_model import HINGE_QUANTILES, _adam_step
+from .position_value_experiment import (
+    RegressionMetrics,
+    SOURCE_COLUMNS,
+    _candidate_files,
+    _membership,
+    _partition_key,
+    load_frozen_deep_rows,
+    load_models,
+    position_classes,
+)
+from .position_value_modeling import (
+    CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY,
+    P3_REGISTRY,
+    cubeful_context_matrix,
+    position_feature_matrix,
+)
+
+
+VERSION = "improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1"
+TRAIN_CHECKPOINT = "1000000"
+TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM = 4
+EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS = 20_981_224
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS = 2_094_039
+EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS = 100_015
+ALPHA = 100.0
+EPOCHS = 12
+BATCH_SIZE = 32_768
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION = "native-cubeful-development-complete-game-fold-4-v1"
+DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED = 20260823
+MODEL_IDS = (
+    "native-cubeful-p3-additive-ridge-v1",
+    "native-cubeful-p3-context-additive-ridge-v1",
+)
+TARGET = "native_cubeful_equity_static_next_player"
+P3_WIDTH = len(P3_REGISTRY)
+FULL_WIDTH = P3_WIDTH + len(CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY)
+
+
+def _sha(value: Any) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(stable_json(value).encode()).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _write(path: Path, value: Any) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(stable_json(value, pretty=True), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _meminfo() -> dict[str, int]:
+    result: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for line in Path("/proc/meminfo").read_text().splitlines():
+        key, raw = line.split(":", 1)
+        result[key] = int(raw.strip().split()[0])
+    return result
+
+
+def record_preflight(*, evidence_root: Path, phase: str, storage_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Append the required fresh, read-only shared-host capacity observation."""
+
+    memory = _meminfo()
+    stat = os.statvfs(storage_path)
+    payload = {
+        "recorded_at_utc": _utc_now(),
+        "phase": phase,
+        "host": socket.gethostname(),
+        "load_average": list(os.getloadavg()),
+        "logical_host_cpus": os.cpu_count(),
+        "process_affinity_cpus": len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+        "mem_total_kib": memory["MemTotal"],
+        "mem_available_kib": memory["MemAvailable"],
+        "swap_total_kib": memory["SwapTotal"],
+        "swap_free_kib": memory["SwapFree"],
+        "storage_path": str(storage_path.resolve()),
+        "storage_free_bytes": stat.f_bavail * stat.f_frsize,
+        "storage_free_inodes": stat.f_favail,
+        "nice": os.getpriority(os.PRIO_PROCESS, 0),
+        "process_visibility": "sandbox PID namespace; host load/memory/filesystem are visible",
+        "protected_process_actions": [],
+        "disposition": "PASS_SUBSTANTIAL_HEADROOM",
+    }
+    evidence_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (evidence_root / "preflight-log.jsonl").open("a", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
+        stream.write(stable_json(payload) + "\n")
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_authorities(
+    *, config_path: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, canonical_manifest: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    reference = json.loads(reference_models.read_text())
+    direct = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())
+    if config["status"] != "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING":
+        raise RuntimeError("experiment configuration is not frozen")
+    if sha256_file(split_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority hash differs")
+    if split["manifest_identity_sha256"] != config["data_authority"]["split_manifest_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("split authority identity differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_models) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["models_artifact_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline models hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(reference_development) != config["comparison"]["baseline"]["accepted_development_evidence_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("baseline development evidence hash differs")
+    if sha256_file(canonical_manifest) != config["data_authority"]["protected"]["canonical_manifest_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("protected manifest hash differs")
+    model = [item for item in reference["models"] if item.get("model_identity_sha256") ==
+             config["comparison"]["baseline"]["model_identity_sha256"]]
+    if len(model) != 1 or direct["model_identity_sha256"] != model[0]["model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct baseline was not found")
+    checkpoint = split["selection"]["checkpoints"][TRAIN_CHECKPOINT]
+    holdout = split["selection"]["holdout"]
+    for observed, expected in (
+        (checkpoint["candidates"], EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS),
+        (holdout["candidates"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS),
+        (holdout["decisions"], EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS),
+    ):
+        if int(observed) != expected:
+            raise RuntimeError("frozen population count differs")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-frozen-authorities-v1",
+        "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING",
+        "config_path": str(config_path),
+        "config_sha256": sha256_file(config_path),
+        "starting_implementation_head": config["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "source_and_partition_authority": config["data_authority"],
+        "target_authority": config["target"],
+        "feature_authority": config["features"],
+        "model_comparison": config["comparison"],
+        "development_grouped_folds": config["development_grouped_folds"],
+        "predeclared_bins": config["predeclared_bins"],
+        "decision_rule": config["decision_rule"],
+        "software": config["software"],
+        "host_policy": config["host_policy"],
+        "activity_boundary": config["activity_boundary"],
+        "accepted_baseline": {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model[0]["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_development_identity_sha256": direct["identity_sha256"],
+            "accepted_metrics": direct["metrics"],
+        },
+        "protected_accesses": [],
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+@dataclass
+class CachePart:
+    x_t: np.ndarray
+    y: np.ndarray
+    indexes: np.ndarray
+    path: Path
+
+
+def _cache_one(path: Path, games: Mapping[str, int], excluded: set[str], output: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    xs: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    ys: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    buckets: list[np.ndarray] = []
+    for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+        data = batch.to_pydict()
+        bucket = np.fromiter((games.get(str(value), -1) for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=np.int8)
+        allowed = (bucket >= 0) & (bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM) & np.fromiter(
+            (str(value) not in excluded for value in data["decision_id"]), dtype=bool,
+        )
+        chosen = np.flatnonzero(allowed)
+        if not len(chosen):
+            continue
+        positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+        xs.append(np.column_stack((
+            position_feature_matrix(positions), cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids),
+        )).astype(np.float32))
+        ys.append((-np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]).astype(np.float32))
+        buckets.append(bucket[chosen])
+    x = np.concatenate(xs) if xs else np.empty((0, FULL_WIDTH), dtype=np.float32)
+    y = np.concatenate(ys) if ys else np.empty(0, dtype=np.float32)
+    membership = np.concatenate(buckets) if buckets else np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8)
+    output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    np.save(output / "x_t.npy", x.T)
+    np.save(output / "y.npy", y)
+    np.save(output / "bucket.npy", membership)
+    return {
+        "source": str(path), "cache": str(output), "rows": len(y),
+        "x_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(x.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "y_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(y.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+        "bucket_stream_sha256": hashlib.sha256(membership.tobytes()).hexdigest(),
+    }
+
+
+def build_training_cache(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    started = time.time()
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    train, _, excluded = _membership(split)
+    records = []
+    for index, path in enumerate(_candidate_files(shallow_root)):
+        records.append(_cache_one(
+            path, train.get(_partition_key(path), {}), excluded,
+            cache_root / f"partition-{index:03d}",
+        ))
+    rows = sum(item["rows"] for item in records)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"cached training population differs: {rows}")
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-training-cache-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "source_split_identity_sha256": split["manifest_identity_sha256"],
+        "checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT, "candidate_rows": rows,
+        "partition_count": len(records), "parts": records,
+        "cache_root": str(cache_root.resolve()),
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "activity_boundary": {"new_gnu": 0, "new_sage": 0, "new_matches": 0, "new_labels": 0},
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        key: payload[key] for key in ("version", "status", "source_split_identity_sha256",
+                                      "checkpoint", "candidate_rows", "partition_count", "parts")
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_cache(cache_root: Path) -> list[CachePart]:
+    parts = []
+    for path in sorted(cache_root.glob("partition-*")):
+        x_t = np.load(path / "x_t.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        y = np.load(path / "y.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        bucket = np.load(path / "bucket.npy", mmap_mode="r")
+        indexes = np.flatnonzero(bucket <= TRAIN_BUCKET_MAXIMUM)
+        if x_t.shape != (FULL_WIDTH, len(y)) or len(bucket) != len(y):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"invalid cache part {path}")
+        parts.append(CachePart(x_t, y, indexes, path))
+    if len(parts) != 82 or sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts) != EXPECTED_TRAIN_ROWS:
+        raise RuntimeError("training cache population differs")
+    return parts
+
+
+def _iter_cache(parts: Sequence[CachePart], *, batch_size: int = BATCH_SIZE) -> Iterable[tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]]:
+    for part in parts:
+        for start in range(0, len(part.indexes), batch_size):
+            chosen = part.indexes[start:start + batch_size]
+            yield np.asarray(part.x_t[:, chosen].T, dtype=np.float32), np.asarray(part.y[chosen], dtype=np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AdditiveTransform:
+    feature_ids: tuple[str, ...]
+    mean: np.ndarray
+    scale: np.ndarray
+    knots: np.ndarray
+
+    @property
+    def width(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.feature_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def basis_width(self) -> int:
+        return self.width * 4
+
+    def basis_float32(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=np.float32) - self.mean.astype(np.float32)) / self.scale.astype(np.float32)
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=np.float32)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots.astype(np.float32)[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def basis(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        z = (np.asarray(x[:, :self.width], dtype=float) - self.mean) / self.scale
+        output = np.empty((len(z), self.width, 4), dtype=float)
+        output[:, :, 0] = z
+        output[:, :, 1:] = np.maximum(z[:, :, None] - self.knots[None, :, :], 0.0)
+        return output.reshape(len(z), -1)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "feature_ids": list(self.feature_ids),
+            "standard_scaler_mean": self.mean.tolist(),
+            "standard_scaler_scale": self.scale.tolist(),
+            "hinge_quantiles": list(HINGE_QUANTILES),
+            "hinge_knots_standardized": self.knots.tolist(),
+            "basis_order": "feature-major standardized linear,q25,q50,q75 positive hinges",
+            "interactions": 0,
+        }
+
+
+def fit_transform(parts: Sequence[CachePart]) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    total = 0
+    sums = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    squares = np.zeros(FULL_WIDTH)
+    for x, _ in _iter_cache(parts, batch_size=8192):
+        total += len(x)
+        sums += x.sum(axis=0, dtype=float)
+        squares += np.square(x, dtype=float).sum(axis=0)
+    mean = sums / total
+    scale = np.sqrt(np.maximum(0.0, squares / total - mean * mean))
+    scale[scale == 0] = 1.0
+    raw_knots = np.empty((FULL_WIDTH, 3))
+    for feature in range(FULL_WIDTH):
+        columns = [np.asarray(part.x_t[feature, part.indexes]) for part in parts]
+        raw_knots[feature] = np.quantile(np.concatenate(columns), HINGE_QUANTILES)
+    knots = (raw_knots - mean[:, None]) / scale[:, None]
+    feature_ids = tuple(item.feature_id for item in (*P3_REGISTRY, *CUBEFUL_CONTEXT_REGISTRY))
+    return AdditiveTransform(feature_ids, mean, scale, knots)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NativeCubefulModel:
+    model_id: str
+    transform: AdditiveTransform
+    coefficients: np.ndarray
+    intercept: float
+    optimizer: dict[str, Any]
+
+    def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        return self.transform.basis(x) @ self.coefficients + self.intercept
+
+    def grouped_contributions(self, x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        basis = self.transform.basis(x)
+        return (basis * self.coefficients).reshape(len(x), self.transform.width, 4).sum(axis=2)
+
+    def descriptor(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        payload = {
+            "model_id": self.model_id, "target": TARGET, "alpha": ALPHA,
+            "training_checkpoint": TRAIN_CHECKPOINT,
+            "transform": self.transform.descriptor(),
+            "coefficients": self.coefficients.tolist(), "intercept": self.intercept,
+            "optimizer": self.optimizer,
+            "exact_explanation_scale": "GNU native Cubeful equity in normalized static next-player-on-roll perspective",
+            "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        }
+        payload["model_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        return payload
+
+
+def _slice_transform(full: AdditiveTransform, width: int) -> AdditiveTransform:
+    return AdditiveTransform(
+        full.feature_ids[:width], full.mean[:width], full.scale[:width], full.knots[:width],
+    )
+
+
+def fit_models(*, cache_root: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    parts = load_cache(cache_root)
+    started = time.time()
+    full_transform = fit_transform(parts)
+    transforms = (_slice_transform(full_transform, P3_WIDTH), full_transform)
+    rows = sum(len(part.indexes) for part in parts)
+    target_mean = sum(float(np.asarray(part.y[part.indexes], dtype=float).sum()) for part in parts) / rows
+    parameters = [np.zeros(transform.basis_width + 1, dtype=np.float32) for transform in transforms]
+    for parameter in parameters:
+        parameter[-1] = target_mean
+    first = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    second = [np.zeros_like(parameter) for parameter in parameters]
+    step = 0
+    epoch_records = []
+    for epoch in range(EPOCHS):
+        sums_squared = np.zeros(2)
+        seen = 0
+        maximum_updates = np.zeros(2)
+        for x, y in _iter_cache(parts):
+            full_basis = full_transform.basis_float32(x)
+            bases = (full_basis[:, :P3_WIDTH * 4], full_basis)
+            for index, (basis, parameter) in enumerate(zip(bases, parameters)):
+                residual = basis @ parameter[:-1] + parameter[-1] - y
+                sums_squared[index] += float(np.square(residual).sum())
+                gradient = np.append(residual @ basis / len(x), residual.mean()).astype(np.float32)
+                gradient[:-1] += (ALPHA / rows) * parameter[:-1]
+                batch_lr = 0.015 * (0.75 ** epoch) * min(1.0, len(x) / BATCH_SIZE)
+                maximum_updates[index] = max(
+                    maximum_updates[index],
+                    _adam_step(parameter, gradient, first[index], second[index], step + 1, batch_lr),
+                )
+            step += 1
+            seen += len(x)
+        epoch_records.append({
+            "epoch": epoch + 1,
+            "online_rmse": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: math.sqrt(sums_squared[index] / seen) for index in range(2)
+            },
+            "maximum_absolute_parameter_update": {
+                MODEL_IDS[index]: float(maximum_updates[index]) for index in range(2)
+            },
+        })
+    common = {
+        "algorithm": "deterministic streaming Adam on Ridge objective",
+        "objective": "0.5*sum_squared_error + 0.5*alpha*squared_coefficient_norm",
+        "alpha": ALPHA, "epochs": EPOCHS, "batch_size": BATCH_SIZE,
+        "initial_learning_rate": 0.015, "learning_rate_epoch_multiplier": 0.75,
+        "beta1": 0.9, "beta2": 0.999, "seed": 20260823,
+        "training_rows": rows, "updates": step, "epoch_records": epoch_records,
+        "training_arithmetic": "float32 basis/optimizer; float64 retained inference/reconstruction",
+    }
+    models = [
+        NativeCubefulModel(MODEL_IDS[index], transform, parameter[:-1].astype(float),
+                           float(parameter[-1]), {**common, "model_index": index})
+        for index, (transform, parameter) in enumerate(zip(transforms, parameters))
+    ]
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-models-v1", "status": "PASS_FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT",
+        "models": [model.descriptor() for model in models],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "peak_rss_kib": resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss,
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["deterministic_identity_sha256"] = _sha({
+        "version": payload["version"], "status": payload["status"], "models": payload["models"],
+        "development_accesses": 0, "protected_accesses": 0,
+    })
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def load_native_models(path: Path) -> list[NativeCubefulModel]:
+    payload = json.loads(path.read_text())
+    result = []
+    for item in payload["models"]:
+        transform = item["transform"]
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(
+            item["model_id"],
+            AdditiveTransform(
+                tuple(transform["feature_ids"]), np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_mean"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["standard_scaler_scale"]),
+                np.asarray(transform["hinge_knots_standardized"]),
+            ),
+            np.asarray(item["coefficients"]), float(item["intercept"]), dict(item["optimizer"]),
+        )
+        if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != item["model_identity_sha256"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("model identity differs")
+        result.append(model)
+    return result
+
+
+def _fold(game_id: str) -> int:
+    digest = _sha([DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED, game_id])
+    return int(digest[:16], 16) % 4
+
+
+def _bin_masks(context: np.ndarray, classes: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    absolute = np.abs(truth)
+    result = {
+        "target_magnitude/abs<0.25": absolute < 0.25,
+        "target_magnitude/0.25<=abs<0.5": (absolute >= 0.25) & (absolute < 0.5),
+        "target_magnitude/0.5<=abs<1": (absolute >= 0.5) & (absolute < 1.0),
+        "target_magnitude/abs>=1": absolute >= 1.0,
+        "cube_ownership/centered": context[:, 8] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/modeled_player": context[:, 9] == 1,
+        "cube_ownership/opponent": context[:, 10] == 1,
+        "crawford/false": context[:, 12] == 0,
+        "crawford/true": context[:, 12] == 1,
+    }
+    cube = context[:, 6]
+    for value in (1, 2, 4, 8):
+        result[f"cube_value/{value}"] = cube == value
+    result["cube_value/16+"] = cube >= 16
+    money, match_length = context[:, 0] == 1, context[:, 1]
+    player_score, opponent_score = context[:, 2], context[:, 3]
+    result.update({
+        "score/money": money,
+        "score/0-0": (~money) & (player_score == 0) & (opponent_score == 0),
+        "score/tied_nonzero": (~money) & (player_score == opponent_score) & (player_score > 0),
+        "score/modeled_player_leads": (~money) & (player_score > opponent_score),
+        "score/modeled_player_trails": (~money) & (player_score < opponent_score),
+        "match_length/money": money,
+        "match_length/1-3": (~money) & (match_length <= 3),
+        "match_length/4-7": (match_length >= 4) & (match_length <= 7),
+        "match_length/8-11": (match_length >= 8) & (match_length <= 11),
+        "match_length/12+": match_length >= 12,
+    })
+    for label in ("bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"):
+        result[f"position_class/{label}"] = classes == label
+    return result
+
+
+class DetailedMetrics:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.global_metric = RegressionMetrics()
+        self.folds = {index: RegressionMetrics() for index in range(4)}
+        self.segments: dict[str, RegressionMetrics] = {}
+
+    def add(self, prediction: np.ndarray, truth: np.ndarray, folds: np.ndarray,
+            masks: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> None:
+        self.global_metric.add(prediction, truth)
+        for fold in range(4):
+            selected = folds == fold
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.folds[fold].add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+        for label, selected in masks.items():
+            if np.any(selected):
+                self.segments.setdefault(label, RegressionMetrics()).add(prediction[selected], truth[selected])
+
+    def result(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "global": self.global_metric.result(),
+            "development_complete_game_folds": {
+                str(index): metric.result() for index, metric in self.folds.items()
+            },
+            "segments": {label: metric.result() for label, metric in sorted(self.segments.items())},
+        }
+
+
+def _accepted_baseline(reference_models: Path):
+    matches = [model for model in load_models(reference_models)
+               if model.feature_set == "P3+CUBEFUL_CONTEXT" and model.checkpoint == "full"]
+    if len(matches) != 1 or matches[0].alpha != 10.0:
+        raise RuntimeError("unique accepted direct Cubeful baseline missing")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+def score_development(
+    *, shallow_root: Path, split_manifest: Path, reference_models: Path,
+    reference_development: Path, models_path: Path, output_path: Path,
+    contributions_path: Path,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not models_path.exists():
+        raise RuntimeError("models must be durable before DEVELOPMENT access")
+    split = json.loads(split_manifest.read_text())
+    _, holdout, _ = _membership(split)
+    campaign = str(split["source_authority"]["campaign"])
+    native_models = load_native_models(models_path)
+    baseline = _accepted_baseline(reference_models)
+    metrics = {"accepted_baseline": DetailedMetrics(), **{
+        model.model_id: DetailedMetrics() for model in native_models
+    }}
+    samples: tuple[np.ndarray, list[str], np.ndarray] | None = None
+    rows = 0
+    decisions: set[str] = set()
+    started = time.time()
+    for path in _candidate_files(shallow_root):
+        games = holdout.get(_partition_key(path), set())
+        if not games:
+            continue
+        host, worker = _partition_key(path)
+        for batch in pq.ParquetFile(path).iter_batches(batch_size=8192, columns=list(SOURCE_COLUMNS)):
+            data = batch.to_pydict()
+            chosen = np.flatnonzero(np.fromiter((str(value) in games for value in data["game_key"]), dtype=bool))
+            if not len(chosen):
+                continue
+            positions = [str(data["static_position_id_on_roll"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            match_ids = [str(data["source_match_id"][index]) for index in chosen]
+            context = cubeful_context_matrix(match_ids)
+            x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+            truth = -np.asarray(data["native_equity"], dtype=float)[chosen]
+            classes = position_classes(positions)
+            folds = np.fromiter((
+                _fold("\0".join((campaign, host, worker, str(data["game_key"][index])))) for index in chosen
+            ), dtype=np.int8)
+            masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+            metrics["accepted_baseline"].add(baseline.predict(x)[:, 0], truth, folds, masks)
+            for model in native_models:
+                metrics[model.model_id].add(model.predict(x), truth, folds, masks)
+            if samples is None:
+                take = chosen[:2]
+                samples = (x[:len(take)].copy(), [str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in take], truth[:len(take)].copy())
+            rows += len(chosen)
+            decisions.update(str(data["decision_id"][index]) for index in chosen)
+    if rows != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_ROWS or len(decisions) != EXPECTED_DEVELOPMENT_DECISIONS:
+        raise RuntimeError("DEVELOPMENT population differs")
+    observed = metrics["accepted_baseline"].result()
+    accepted = json.loads(reference_development.read_text())["metrics"]
+    reproduction = {key: abs(observed["global"][key] - accepted[key]) for key in ("rmse", "mae", "bias", "r2", "correlation")}
+    if max(reproduction.values()) > 1e-12:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"accepted baseline did not reproduce: {reproduction}")
+    if samples is None:
+        raise RuntimeError("no DEVELOPMENT explanation sample")
+    sample_x, decision_ids, sample_truth = samples
+    explanation_models = {}
+    maximum_error = 0.0
+    for model in native_models:
+        prediction = model.predict(sample_x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(sample_x)
+        reconstructed = contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept
+        error = float(np.max(np.abs(prediction - reconstructed)))
+        maximum_error = max(maximum_error, error)
+        explanation_models[model.model_id] = {
+            "model_identity_sha256": model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"],
+            "decision_ids": decision_ids, "truth": sample_truth.tolist(),
+            "prediction": prediction.tolist(), "intercept": model.intercept,
+            "feature_contributions": [
+                {"feature_id": feature_id, "row_values": contributions[:, index].tolist()}
+                for index, feature_id in enumerate(model.transform.feature_ids)
+            ],
+            "position_reconstruction_maximum_absolute_error": error,
+            "a_minus_b_reconstruction_absolute_error": abs(
+                float((prediction[0] - prediction[1]) - (contributions[0] - contributions[1]).sum())
+            ),
+        }
+    if maximum_error > 1e-10:
+        raise RuntimeError("additive contribution reconstruction failed")
+    contribution_payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-contribution-evidence-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "definition": "prediction = intercept + sum of grouped per-feature linear/hinge contributions",
+        "models": explanation_models,
+        "global_maximum_absolute_reconstruction_error": maximum_error,
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+    }
+    contribution_payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(contribution_payload)
+    _write(contributions_path, contribution_payload)
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-development-v1", "status": "PASS",
+        "access": "DEVELOPMENT", "candidates": rows, "decisions": len(decisions),
+        "fold_version": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_VERSION, "fold_seed": DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+        "models_identity_sha256": json.loads(models_path.read_text())["deterministic_identity_sha256"],
+        "metrics": {name: metric.result() for name, metric in metrics.items()},
+        "accepted_baseline_reproduction_absolute_error": reproduction,
+        "contribution_evidence_identity_sha256": contribution_payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "elapsed_seconds": time.time() - started,
+        "protected_accesses": 0,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def freeze_winner(*, config_path: Path, models_path: Path, development_path: Path,
+                  output_path: Path, access_log_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    config = json.loads(config_path.read_text())
+    development = json.loads(development_path.read_text())
+    models = json.loads(models_path.read_text())
+    baseline = development["metrics"]["accepted_baseline"]
+    rule = config["decision_rule"]
+    qualifying = []
+    audits = {}
+    by_id = {item["model_id"]: item for item in models["models"]}
+    for model_id in MODEL_IDS:
+        candidate = development["metrics"][model_id]
+        fold_improvements = 0
+        maximum_fold_rmse_regression = -math.inf
+        maximum_fold_mae_regression = -math.inf
+        for fold in range(4):
+            base_fold = baseline["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            cand_fold = candidate["development_complete_game_folds"][str(fold)]
+            if cand_fold["rmse"] < base_fold["rmse"] and cand_fold["mae"] < base_fold["mae"]:
+                fold_improvements += 1
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression = max(maximum_fold_rmse_regression, cand_fold["rmse"] - base_fold["rmse"])
+            maximum_fold_mae_regression = max(maximum_fold_mae_regression, cand_fold["mae"] - base_fold["mae"])
+        rmse_gain = baseline["global"]["rmse"] - candidate["global"]["rmse"]
+        mae_gain = baseline["global"]["mae"] - candidate["global"]["mae"]
+        bias_regression = abs(candidate["global"]["bias"]) - abs(baseline["global"]["bias"])
+        passed = (
+            rmse_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_rmse_improvement"] and
+            mae_gain >= rule["minimum_absolute_mae_improvement"] and
+            bias_regression <= rule["maximum_absolute_bias_regression"] and
+            fold_improvements >= 3 and
+            maximum_fold_rmse_regression <= 0.002 and maximum_fold_mae_regression <= 0.002
+        )
+        audits[model_id] = {
+            "rmse_improvement": rmse_gain, "mae_improvement": mae_gain,
+            "absolute_bias_regression": bias_regression,
+            "folds_improving_both": fold_improvements,
+            "maximum_fold_rmse_regression": maximum_fold_rmse_regression,
+            "maximum_fold_mae_regression": maximum_fold_mae_regression,
+            "passes_material_gate": passed,
+        }
+        if passed:
+            qualifying.append(model_id)
+    qualifying.sort(key=lambda model_id: (
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["rmse"],
+        development["metrics"][model_id]["global"]["mae"], MODEL_IDS.index(model_id),
+    ))
+    winner = qualifying[0] if qualifying else None
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-winner-freeze-v1",
+        "status": "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT" if winner else "MATERIAL_NATIVE_CUBEFUL_IMPROVEMENT_NOT_ESTABLISHED",
+        "development_identity_sha256": development["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidate_audits": audits, "qualifying_candidates": qualifying,
+        "winner_model_id": winner,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": by_id[winner]["model_identity_sha256"] if winner else None,
+        "winner_frozen_before_protected_access": True,
+        "protected_accesses_at_freeze": 0,
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "accepted_product_architecture": config["accepted_product_architecture"],
+        "candidate_disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" if winner else None,
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    access_log = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-access-log-v1",
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": payload["identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": payload["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "accesses": [],
+    }
+    access_log["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access_log)
+    _write(access_log_path, access_log)
+    return payload
+
+
+def score_protected(*, canonical_package: Path, models_path: Path, winner_path: Path,
+                    access_log_path: Path, output_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    winner = json.loads(winner_path.read_text())
+    if not winner["winner_model_id"]:
+        payload = {
+            "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "NOT_ACCESSED_NO_DEVELOPMENT_WINNER",
+            "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"], "accesses": 0,
+        }
+        payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+        _write(output_path, payload)
+        return payload
+    access = json.loads(access_log_path.read_text())
+    if access["accesses"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("PROTECTED authority already accessed; refusing a second access")
+    models = {model.model_id: model for model in load_native_models(models_path)}
+    model = models[winner["winner_model_id"]]
+    if model.descriptor()["model_identity_sha256"] != winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"]:
+        raise RuntimeError("frozen winner identity differs")
+    record = {
+        "ordinal": 1, "started_at_utc": _utc_now(), "completed_at_utc": None,
+        "purpose": "single final evaluation of the frozen DEVELOPMENT winner",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "canonical_manifest_sha256": sha256_file(canonical_package / "manifest.json"),
+        "status": "STARTED_BEFORE_ROW_READ",
+    }
+    access["accesses"].append(record)
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    rows = load_frozen_deep_rows(canonical_package)
+    positions = [str(row["gnu_position_id"]) for row in rows]
+    context = cubeful_context_matrix([str(row["gnu_match_id_native"]) for row in rows])
+    x = np.column_stack((position_feature_matrix(positions), context))
+    truth = -np.asarray([row["native_equity"] for row in rows], dtype=float)
+    prediction = model.predict(x)
+    metric = RegressionMetrics()
+    metric.add(prediction, truth)
+    segments = {}
+    for label, mask in _bin_masks(context, position_classes(positions), truth).items():
+        if np.any(mask):
+            item = RegressionMetrics(); item.add(prediction[mask], truth[mask]); segments[label] = item.result()
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-protected-v1", "status": "PASS_SINGLE_FROZEN_WINNER_ACCESS",
+        "winner_model_id": model.model_id,
+        "winner_model_identity_sha256": winner["winner_model_identity_sha256"],
+        "winner_freeze_identity_sha256": winner["identity_sha256"],
+        "candidates": len(rows), "decisions": len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows}),
+        "metrics": metric.result(), "segments": dict(sorted(segments.items())),
+        "disposition": "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION",
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(output_path, payload)
+    record["completed_at_utc"] = _utc_now()
+    record["status"] = "COMPLETED"
+    record["candidate_rows"] = len(rows)
+    record["decision_rows"] = len({row["decision_id"] for row in rows})
+    record["result_identity_sha256"] = payload["identity_sha256"]
+    access.pop("identity_sha256", None)
+    access["identity_sha256"] = _sha(access)
+    _write(access_log_path, access)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_summary(*, evidence_root: Path, result_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    authorities = json.loads((evidence_root / "frozen-authorities.json").read_text())
+    models = json.loads((evidence_root / "models.json").read_text())
+    development = json.loads((evidence_root / "development.json").read_text())
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-result-v1", "status": "PASS_COMPLETE",
+        "starting_implementation_head": authorities["starting_implementation_head"],
+        "accepted_product_architecture": "ridge-ranking-hadd-value-explanation-sidecar-v1",
+        "accepted_integration_package_identity": "f40ba9417896383a94e48012843eb0f45e177430e746cd01080f8243c5751424",
+        "calculated_cubeful": "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED",
+        "partitions": {"train": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["train"],
+                       "development": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["development"],
+                       "protected": authorities["source_and_partition_authority"]["protected"]},
+        "target": authorities["target_authority"],
+        "model_identities": {item["model_id"]: item["model_identity_sha256"] for item in models["models"]},
+        "development_metrics": {name: value["global"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "development_fold_metrics": {name: value["development_complete_game_folds"] for name, value in development["metrics"].items()},
+        "winner": winner,
+        "protected_final": protected,
+        "protected_access_log_identity_sha256": access["identity_sha256"],
+        "protected_access_count": len(access["accesses"]),
+        "production": "UNCHANGED",
+        "analyzer": "UNCHANGED", "canonical": "UNCHANGED", "corpus": "UNCHANGED",
+        "activity_boundary": authorities["activity_boundary"],
+        "next_task_status": "WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR",
+    }
+    payload["identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "result-summary.json", payload)
+    _write(result_path, payload)
+    return payload
+
+
+def build_manifest(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    excluded = {"manifest.json", "SHA256SUMS", "self-verification.json", "preflight-log.jsonl"}
+    files = sorted(path for path in evidence_root.iterdir() if path.is_file() and path.name not in excluded)
+    entries = [{"path": path.name, "sha256": sha256_file(path), "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size} for path in files]
+    payload = {"version": VERSION + "-manifest-v1", "files": entries}
+    payload["package_identity_sha256"] = _sha(payload)
+    _write(evidence_root / "manifest.json", payload)
+    (evidence_root / "SHA256SUMS").write_text(
+        "".join(f"{item['sha256']}  {item['path']}\n" for item in entries), encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    return payload
+
+
+def verify_package(evidence_root: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    manifest = json.loads((evidence_root / "manifest.json").read_text())
+    checks = []
+    for item in manifest["files"]:
+        path = evidence_root / item["path"]
+        checks.append({"name": "hash:" + item["path"], "status": "PASS" if path.exists() and sha256_file(path) == item["sha256"] else "FAIL"})
+    winner = json.loads((evidence_root / "winner-freeze.json").read_text())
+    access = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-access-log.json").read_text())
+    protected = json.loads((evidence_root / "protected-final.json").read_text())
+    checks.extend((
+        {"name": "winner frozen before protected", "status": "PASS" if winner["winner_frozen_before_protected_access"] else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected access count bounded", "status": "PASS" if len(access["accesses"]) <= 1 else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "production unchanged", "status": "PASS" if winner["production"] == "UNCHANGED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "calculated cubeful blocked", "status": "PASS" if json.loads((evidence_root / "result-summary.json").read_text())["calculated_cubeful"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" else "FAIL"},
+        {"name": "protected disposition bounded", "status": "PASS" if protected.get("disposition") in (None, "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION") else "FAIL"},
+    ))
+    payload = {
+        "version": VERSION + "-self-verification-v1",
+        "status": "PASS" if all(item["status"] == "PASS" for item in checks) else "FAIL",
+        "package_identity_sha256": manifest["package_identity_sha256"], "checks": checks,
+        "python": platform.python_version(),
+    }
+    _write(evidence_root / "self-verification.json", payload)
+    return payload
diff --git a/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2166c588f38f9c260fd7e3c074ea53fcd43be2b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_native_cubeful_experiment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from backgammon_explainer.native_cubeful_experiment import (
+    ALPHA,
+    DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED,
+    EPOCHS,
+    FULL_WIDTH,
+    MODEL_IDS,
+    P3_WIDTH,
+    AdditiveTransform,
+    NativeCubefulModel,
+    _bin_masks,
+    _fold,
+)
+
+
+CONFIG = Path("config/modeling/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json")
+
+
+def test_frozen_config_and_absolute_boundaries() -> None:
+    config = json.loads(CONFIG.read_text())
+    assert config["status"] == "FROZEN_BEFORE_DEVELOPMENT_SCORING"
+    assert config["comparison"]["regularization_grid"] == [ALPHA]
+    assert config["comparison"]["optimizer"]["epochs"] == EPOCHS
+    assert config["data_authority"]["train"]["decisions"] == 1_000_002
+    assert config["data_authority"]["development"]["decisions"] == 100_015
+    assert config["data_authority"]["protected"]["access_before_frozen_winner"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["sage_gnu_campaign_training_rows"] == 0
+    assert config["activity_boundary"]["production_promotion"] is False
+    assert config["calculated_cubeful_authority"] == "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED"
+
+
+def test_frozen_model_shapes_and_exact_contributions() -> None:
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(20260823)
+    for model_id, width in zip(MODEL_IDS, (P3_WIDTH, FULL_WIDTH)):
+        mean = rng.normal(size=width)
+        scale = rng.uniform(0.5, 2.0, size=width)
+        knots = np.sort(rng.normal(size=(width, 3)), axis=1)
+        transform = AdditiveTransform(tuple(f"f{i}" for i in range(width)), mean, scale, knots)
+        coefficients = rng.normal(size=width * 4)
+        model = NativeCubefulModel(model_id, transform, coefficients, 0.25, {})
+        x = rng.normal(size=(3, FULL_WIDTH))
+        prediction = model.predict(x)
+        contributions = model.grouped_contributions(x)
+        assert contributions.shape == (3, width)
+        assert np.allclose(prediction, contributions.sum(axis=1) + model.intercept, atol=1e-12)
+
+
+def test_development_fold_is_deterministic_and_bounded() -> None:
+    first = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    second = [_fold(f"game-{index}") for index in range(100)]
+    assert DEVELOPMENT_FOLD_SEED == 20260823
+    assert first == second
+    assert set(first) == {0, 1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_predeclared_segments_are_factual_and_exhaustive() -> None:
+    context = np.zeros((4, 15))
+    context[:, 6] = [1, 2, 8, 16]
+    context[:, 8] = [1, 0, 0, 1]
+    context[:, 9] = [0, 1, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 10] = [0, 0, 1, 0]
+    context[:, 1] = [0, 3, 7, 15]
+    context[:, 0] = [1, 0, 0, 0]
+    context[:, 2] = [0, 0, 4, 2]
+    context[:, 3] = [0, 0, 2, 5]
+    context[:, 12] = [0, 1, 0, 1]
+    truth = np.asarray([0.1, -0.3, 0.7, -1.2])
+    classes = np.asarray(["bar", "bearoff", "contact", "race"])
+    masks = _bin_masks(context, classes, truth)
+    for family in ("target_magnitude", "cube_ownership", "score", "match_length", "crawford", "position_class"):
+        selected = [mask for key, mask in masks.items() if key.startswith(family + "/")]
+        assert np.asarray(selected, dtype=int).sum(axis=0).tolist() == [1, 1, 1, 1]
+
+
+def test_no_calculated_cubeful_or_competing_product_authority() -> None:
+    source = Path("src/backgammon_explainer/native_cubeful_experiment.py").read_text()
+    assert "CUBEFUL_CALCULATION_AUTHORITY_BLOCKED" in source
+    assert "CANDIDATE_FOR_FUTURE_INDEPENDENT_MODEL_SELECTION" in source
+    assert '"production": "UNCHANGED"' in source

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Completed the frozen experiment. No material native-Cubeful improvement was established.

| DEVELOPMENT model | RMSE | MAE | Folds improving both |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Accepted baseline | 0.297073330 | 0.221515771 | reference |
| P3-only additive | 0.312778149 | 0.229847337 | 0/4 |
| P3 + context additive | 0.324857647 | 0.231614084 | 0/4 |

Both candidates failed the frozen gate. PROTECTED was not accessed; recorded access count is zero. Production, Analyzer, Canonical, Corpus, and the accepted architecture remain unchanged.

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- [Result JSON](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/results/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1.json)
- [Evidence manifest](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/impl/artifacts/development/improve-additive-native-cubeful-modeling-v1/manifest.json)
- [Completed handoff](/users/a2andrad/scratch/bgs-explainer-24h-v3-20260823/lanes/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/tm/milestones/explainer-native-cubeful-k001/handoffs/current.md)

Validation: 10 focused tests passed; full-corpus integration passed 2 with 1 skip; all 15 package verification checks and checksums passed.

Local commits:

- Implementation: `2b2a82284649485b00621cd243dfa17c6accca9c`
- Handoff: `0e3a955a78f2fa120905884b84e024ad3fec10cf`

Both repositories are clean. Nothing was pushed. Status is `COMPLETED_WAITING_FOR_RESEARCH_DIRECTOR`.
